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7™ Season 

Gillespie s Popular Tours 

PERSONALLY CONDUCTED 

Choice of Three Tours 

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^ Summer of J 899 dt 

TOUR No. \. 
The Pacific Coast and Yellowstone Park. 

TOUR No. 2. 

The'Great Lakes^ Georg^ian Bay^ the Thousand Islands^ the St. Lawrence, 

and the Adirondacks. 

TOUR No. 3. 

Boston, the White Mountains, Old Orchard Beach, 
and the Coast of Maine. 

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W. A, GILLESPIE 

639-643 N. BROAD ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Introductory. 



To FRIENDS who have enjoyed other tours with me during the past seven 
years; to Teachers, especially, who desire to attend the Annual Convention of 
the National Educational Association, to be held at Los Angeles, July iith- 
14th, and to their friends, the three tours, fully outlined on the following 
pages, are respectfully submitted. 

Chief among them, of course, is Tour No. i, to the Pacific Coast, returning via 
Portland, Oregon, and the Yellowstone National Park. The arrangements for this 
tour are unusually complete, and the rate named, which covers every necessary ex- 
pense, phenomenally low. 

It was my privilege to organize the great Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Tour 
to the Pacific Coast, in connection with the Christian Endeavor Convention at San 
Francisco, in July, 1897. That was the largest excursion that ever crossed the conti- 
nent; the party numbered 856, and traveled in a train of four sections, the second and 
third sections leaving Philadelphia two days later than the first and second. 

In making arrangements for such a large party we were able to secure exception- 
ally favorable rates. We are glad to say that with but a very few exceptions we have 
secured the same favorable rates for the Tour of '99. It is for this reason that we are 
able to name such a low rate to cover every necessary expense. Remember, too, that 
the accommodations throughout are to be strictly first-class. 

The Passenger Associations have named for the National Educational Convention, 
a railroad rate of one fare for the round trip, i. e., $81.25 from Philadelphia, with $12.50 
additional to return via Portland, making $93.75 for total cost of round trip railroad 
ticket only from Philadelphia, returning via Portland and the Yellowstone National 
Park. 

It is a little unfortunate that the Teachers' Convention should open as early as 
July nth, for that necessitates the arrival of our party at Los Angeles on the evening 
of the loth. In order to accomplish this, and at the same time do full justice to the 
many points of interest en route through the Rockies and across the Sierra Nevadas, 
we must of necessity leave Philadelphia on the evening of June 30th, notwithstanding 
the fact that our schools only close on that date. This itinerary will reach the hands 
of many who took the California Tour in '97; but we feel sure they will be at once in- 
terested in the July Tour of the Great Lakes, Thousand Islands, etc., and the August 
Tour of the White Mountains and the coast of Maine. 

All the Tours are to be personally conducted, and every detail will be closely 
jb'qked'Vtvrj ti^e ehiesf aini^lj^^ 1p study the comfort and pleasure of the Tourist. 



Faithfully yours, 

W. A. GILLESPIE. 



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TOUR No. J. 



To be Known as the Pacific Coast Tour. 



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THE JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA. 

IT is a far cry. Many who have never made the journey look upon it as necessarily 
a long and tedious confinement in a commodious upholstered box. Others who 
have gone and returned repeatedly regard the overland passage as one replete 
with the interest of continual changes— changes that include climates, zones, and 
immense distances, full of pictures of the rich- 
ness, variety, miraculous growth, and immense 
wealth of the most magnificent empire known 
to human history. 

There is now a feeling that to an intelligent 
man or woman the transcontinental journey is 
necessary, even if there were no wonderful Cali- 
fornia at the end of it. Genius seizes upon it 
as something dramatic. Kipling's most strik- 
ing chapter in the unique Captains Courageous is 
about the overland ride of a man and a woman 
from the Pacific coast to Chicago. It was a 
personal experience with the famous story-teller, 
and he made a chapter to put it in. Thousands 
of men and women are equal to Mr. Kipling, 
not in that ability to describe, which we call 
genius, but in the ability to see and understand 
and appreciate. The long overland journey is 
not a tedious task, but a privilege and a 
pleasure. 

This long journey has periods and zones 
and natural divisions. Of these last there are at 
least three, each immensely different from the 
other two. Going west, the first division may 
be supposed to be that country lying between 
the commercial centre of the Mississippi Val- 
ley at Chicago and its western edge in the 
Rocky Mountains and Colorado. What this divi- 
sion includes cannot be put into words, but 

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only into the colossal figures that tell in pounds and bushels and values of the steady 
stream that goes out thence to feed the world. The line that is the very nearest, 
quickest, and shortest across this gigantic garden, and that in the matter of days and 

nights shows the 
least of any, 
crosses northern 
Illinois, southern 
Iowa, and central 
Nebraska. One 
could not see all 
that this belt rep- 
resents in a jour- 
ney of thousands 
of miles through 
and across it. But 
it represents in 
this railway trip 
across it the best 

of the world's bread-basket, and the scene is so impressive that no intelligent European 
can once cross it and return home and assure his country of safety in a quarrel with 
such vast resources. 

The second division of the journey may be assumed to include the mountain 
scenery of Colorado to Salt Lake City. The contrast between the first and this 
second division is startling. The abiding wonder is that railroads were ever built 
across these mountains at all. As it is they traverse with thousands of curves and 
steep grades and clingings to mountain-sides and threadings of fissures; sometimes 
amid the clouds and sometimes in cafions whose walls rise hundreds of feet on each 
hand; scenery about which volumes have been written, but which no man has ever 
yet described. 

And does the reader 
understand that that city of 
the Latter-Day Saints, that 
lies at the end of this as- 
sumed division, is one of 
the wonders of the world? 
It is not so much in what 
one sees there as in what 
that scene, that garden in 
the desert, represents. There 
never was a faith, not even 
that of Israel when it trailed 
itself behind the pillar of 
fire for forty years, that 

equaled the faith that first A Street in Los Angeles. 




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led these people to Salt Lake across such distance and such hopeless hardships. Here 
they are, the famous Mormons. One can see that it was a successful faith, if one will 
stop and study its results, yet it is one that to the world and to all other faiths is a 
mass of puerilities. 

The third division is from Salt Lake westward. As far as to Truckee, where the 
train begins to climb amid those scenes of the Sierras, the impression is chiefly one of 
rcck-ribbed vastness. It is true that the eye grows tired and the senses dull as the 
huge panorama glides past, yet it is an experience that takes its place at last amid the 
pleasant memories, and may be over and over repeated. There be those hardy men 
of whom, in hours of stress, this republic need never despair, who do not speak of this 
as a desert. Be that as it may, the traveler to California is in it but not of it. He 
glides over it and it is gone. 

And then, with the climbing of the Sierras, comes California, glimpses of which, 
and only glimpses, appear in the follozving pages. 

Outlining, to some extent, the Tour in detail, the party will leave Philadelphia Friday 
evening, June 30th, 1899, from the Reading Terminal (Twelfth and Market Streets), 
via the Philadelphia & Reading and Lehigh Valley Route to Chicago, arriving Satur- 
day evening, July ist. Throughout the tour, no Sunday traveling will be required. 
Sunday, July 2d, will be spent in Chicago, with the Victoria Hotel, one of Chicago's 
finest, for headquarters. At midnight, Sunday, July 2d, the party leave Chicago for 
Denver, Colorado, that part of the journey consuming all of Monday and Monday 
night, crossing the great agricultural States of Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska, arriving 
iit Denver, the capitol of Colorado, and the metropolis of the middle West, on Tuesday 
morning, July 4th. 
We could scarcely 
ask to celebrate 
the Nation's birth- 
day in a more 
beautiful city. His- 
torically, in 1858, 
the Pike's Peak 
gold excitement 
caused a rush from 
the East to Colo- 
rado, and a camp 
was pitched at the 
junction of Cherry 
Creek and the 
Platte, which, 
shortly after, was 
christened Aura- 
ria. From this 

small beginning sprang Denver, the "Queen City of the Plains." Beautiful for situation, 
with the great range of the Rocky Mountains towering in the west, and the illimitable 




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plains stretching to the Missouri River on the east, Denver is worthy of the attention 
and admiration of all who behold it. It is one of the greatest railroad points in the 
West; twelve railroads centering here, radiating to all parts of the United States, 
thus giving Denver almost unsurpassed facilities for transcontinental traffic. 

Here we are to spend the day — and a delightful day we are sure it will prove to 
be. Our headquarters will be at the Windsor Hotel, one of the best hotels in the 
city, and only a short walk from the Union Station. During the day the party will 
take its first side trip through the beautiful Clear Creek Cafion via the Denver & Gulf 
Railway. This is the celebrated "Loop" Trip. The first peep into the cafions of the 
Rockies. There is nothing like Clear Creek Cafion in America. It is not exaggera- 
tion to say that, for wild, rugged scenery, Nature in her most majestic mood failed to 
provide its equal, and it cannot be described. As the iron horse laboriously climbs 
the steep grade, often overhead there is but a haunting hand's-breadth of gleaming 
sky; the grim walls, close enough to touch at times as you flit by; the fantastic shapes 
carved upon the mountain, bold profiles and fairy castles; the tranquil summerland 
into which you occasionally dash, when the cafion widens into a few brief acres, 
green, shady, inviting; a passing glimpse of a dazzling snow-summit, far away in the 
upper ether — these, and more, one may recall, and still there remains an indefinable 

sense of something elusive that you have not held 
fast and cannot describe. It is the spirit of beauty, 
the power of pure, ennobling scenery, which cannot 
be taken away from its home or ever reproduced in 
words. 

After a thrilling ride of something over two 
hours, we approach the beautiful little mountain vil- 
lage of Georgetown, perched above which is the 
famous "Loop," that wonderful piece of engineering 
skill now world-famous. 

Passing above West Clear Creek, with just a 
glimpse of the picturesque bridge that spans Devil's 
Gate, the road runs under the great viaduct, and rises 
and rises until you have left the city hundreds of feet 
below and to the north; but, with a sudden turn, it 
is again seen, with the train this time rushing toward 
the city and still climbing; again a turn to the east; 
now down ninety feet below is the track just passed; 
away again on the farther side of the mountain, again 
crossing to the west side; suddenly turning to the 
east until the "Big Fill," 76 feet high — too sharp a 
curve for a bridge — has given another circle to the track; then, with a turn to the west, 
around the slope of McClellan Mountain, still another view of Georgetown, with all 
the tracks in view, each seeming to have no relation to its neighbor, until another 
valley in the mountains discloses the pretty village of Silver Plume, the close ally and 
best friend of Georgetown. But the "Loop" is a railway on a "bender" — it is the 




Hanging Rock on the "Loop" Trip. 



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apotheosis of gyration, the supreme luxury of entanglement — yet all wisely, clearly, 
skilfully planned — a wondrous monument of human genius and engineering skill. 

After crossing the Loop it is 
only a short run to Silver 
Plume, the end of our journey. 
We remain at Silver Plume a 
short time and then retrace our 
steps, returning to Denver, 
where the remainder of the day 
and the evening hours will be 
spent. 

At midnight, our Pullmans 
move out of Union Station, over 
the tracks of the Denver & Rio 
Grande Railway, and when we 
awaken in the morning we find 
ourselves at Manitou Springs, Colorado, under the shadow of Pike's Peak, and on the 
threshold of the Garden of the Gods. 

Here the party remains for the greater part of the day, the time being divided 
between the ascent of Pike's Peak and the carriage ride through the Garden of the 
Gods. Both trips are included in the Tour. There will be ample time, also, for a 
visit to Colorado Springs, only five miles distant, and reached by trolley. 

As to Manitou Springs itself, the dominating impression i^ a winding village 
avenue paved in red, walled with artistically constructed cottages and hotels and 




The World-famous "Loop." 




The Barker House, Manitou. 



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business houses, built of mountain stone or mountain pine, decorated with parks and 
bubbHng springs and restful canopy pavilions free to all, with a brawling mountain 
brook always making melody beside one wherever he walks. Bounding all this on 
every side a barricade of stupendous mountains, chasmed with rugged and picturesque 
cafions opening at either side when least expected, and the whole having for its back- 
ground the immensity of Pike's Peak. 

Cover all these mountain walls with a confusion of color from variegated rocks 
and the green of pines, every slope a broken and rugged wilderness of fragmentary, 
stony disorder, fill the valley with the purest, sweetest air under heaven, untainted by 
any uncleanness, and this is Manitou. 

Our headquarters at Manitou will be the Barker House, one of the celebrated 
resort hotels of the city. 

PIKE'S PEAK. 

Pike's Peak recurs to mind the instant a query is made as to Manitou's most 
famous natural scenery. And now that its ascent is made a matter of no labor what- 



ever, where once it was a task 
attractive power for thou- 
summit of a peak that was 
is an achievement, even if 
of an external motive 
From Manitou to 
the very apex of Pike's 
Peak extends a rail- 
way, traversed daily 
in the summer sea- 



to make the strongest hesitate, the 

sands is doubled. To stand on the 

long reputed unattainable, 

it be done by aid 

power. 





son by cars and locomo- 
tives, and carrying hun- 
dreds of tourists to this 
amazing point of vantage. 
It is one of the remark- 
able pieces of railway con- 

Makxng the Ascent of Pike's Peak. StrUCtion of the WOrld. 

The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway was completed in June, 1891, at a cost of 
more than $1,000,000. It is the longest and highest cog-road in the world. It 



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reaches, at the summit, the immense height of 14,334 feet, and in its course of nine 
and one-half miles it climbs grades up to twenty-five per cent, without jar or difficulty. 
The workmanship of the line is of the safest and staunchest sort, and no pains 
or expenses were spared to guarantee absence of all danger. The track is tied at 
short distances to cross sections of masonry, sunk in the side of the mountain, so 
that a slide is absolutely impossible. The maximum curvature is but 16 degrees; 
there is not a foot of trestlework in the whole line, and the three short bridges are of 
solid iron construction. 

The greatest ascent per mile is 1,320 feet. The climbing is done by means of 
two cog-rails placed in the middle of the track, in which engage corresponding cog- 
wheels of the locomotive. Safety is assured by all sorts of appliances used for such 
purpose, and no accident has ever occurred. 

The cars, which are built on a slant so that the seats are always level, are pushed 
by the engine and are not coupled together, so that, by the use of independent safety 

brakes, absolute security from danger is 
guaranteed. 

It would be fruitless to attempt to con- 
vey to the mind of one who has not seen 
them the qualities of enormous size and im- 
pressive grandeur, mingled in the beginning 
with picturesque beauty, that go to make up 
the delights of a ride to the summit of Pike's 
Peak. 

The road starts in Engleman's Cafion, 
near the Iron Spring, and climbs up the 
gulch for some distance at the side of Rux- 
ton Creek. Several picturesque cafions 
branch from the main gulch as the road as- 
cends, all worthy of rambles in turn. 

As one passes caiion after cation and 
reaches the various places which have been 
associated with names, every turn of the 
wheels seems to open before him some new 
pleasure of sight. Through openings among the trees and rocks he may see familiar 
objects far away, dwarfed by distance and depth. 

Soon after the train leaves the Half-Way House, Timber Line Station is reached, 
and then the famous Windy Point, whence the view is particularly magnificent. After 
this the rest of the journey is along the extreme grade of the road — twenty-five per 
cent. The great precipice of "The Crater" is passed, and the summit of Pike's Peak is 
attained. 

From the peak the view is indescribably grand. The extent of territory surveyed 
is enormous. Many familiar cities and resorts can be seen. The immense solitude, 
the profound silence, the evidences of nature's stupendous strength, the clouds and 
storms below are almost overwhelming. 




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THE GARDEN OF THE GODS. 




Few tracts of equal area have been so much written about, so much exploited and 
described in print as the peculiar place known at the Garden of the Gods. Who 

named it thus is a disputed point, but at any rate 
it was a happy conceit, if we may believe in gro- 
tesquerie as one of the objects of gardening among 
the gods of mythology. 

Three miles from Manitou, driving by either 
one of two beautiful carriage roads, the tourist 
finds an immense sandstone boulder at the left of the 
road, standing on a base so small that it would 
seem a push from a sturdy shoulder might topple 
it over. This is Balanced Rock, the southwest en- 
trance to the peculiar garden. 

From this point the road winds down into a val- 
ley of several hundred acres, to find an exit again 
at the northeast, between portals famous in illustra- 
tion the world over as the Gateway of the Garden. 
Two enormous red sandstone rocks rise from 
the plain almost vertically, to a height of more 
than 300 feet. They are so thin, measured by their 
height and length, that they seem almost like slabs 
of stone set up by giant hands to form this gateway. 
Between these two entrances, that of the Balanced Rock and the Gateway, the 
valley is dotted at intervals with most peculiar and grotesque rock formations, rising 
from the level plain in figures promptly suggestive of things we have seen in life. 
Carved in the stone by nature's active elements, the statues and figures stand for the 
interest and admiration of all who pass. Frost, wind, rain, sun, all have shared the 
labor, and it is still continuing, so that future generations will see new forms yet 
covered in the solid blocks of stone. All sorts of animals and men and things are 
detected in the stone by the ingenious one, some very obvious, others needing a vivid 
imagination or a strained vision; but no one can deny the picturesque novelty of the 
formations. Of them all, however, the Gateway and the Cathedral Spires are the 
most notable. The latter are formed by a splintered slab second only in size to those 
of the Gateway and also second only in interest to them. 

Glen Eyrie, the residence of a gentleman who kindly permits strangers to drive 
through his unique grounds, terminates in Queen's Cation, and contains some re- 
markable features of this sort, crags, and precipices of amazing shapes, and, foremost 
of all, "Major Domo," a monolith whose form is ever remembered when once seen. 

Pike's Peak and the Garden of the Gods are only two of the many attractions at 
Manitou Springs, so that the day will be most delightfully spent. 

Leaving Manitou Springs the train moves on toward Pueblo. Colorado. Shortly 



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The Quakers, Garden of the Gods. 

after leaving Pueblo, we approach Canon City, situated at the very mouth of the 
Royal Gorge of the Grand Caiion of the Arkansas. 



THE ROYAL GORGE. 

The crowning wonder of this wonderful Denver & Rio Grande Railroad is the 
Royal Gorge. Situated between Canon City and Salida, it is easy of access either 
from Denver or Pueblo. After the entrance of the caiion has been made, surprise and 
almost terror comes. The train rolls around a long curve close under a wall of 
black and banded granite, beside which the ponderous locomotive shrinks to a mere 
dot, as if swinging on some pivot in the heart of the mountain or captured by a cen- 
tripetal force that would never resign its grasp. Almost a whole circle is accom- 
plished, and the grand amphitheatrical sweep of the wall shows no break in its smooth 
and zenith-cutting fagade. Will the journey end here? Is it a mistake that the 
crevice goes through the range? Does not all this mad water gush from some 
powerful spring, or boil out of a subterranean channel, impenetrable to us? No, it 
opens. Resisting centripetal, centrifugal force claims the train, and it breaks away 
at a tangent past the edge or round the corner of the great black wall which com- 
pelled its detour and that of the river before it. Now what glories of rock-piling 
confront the wide-distended eye. How those sharp-edged cliffs, standing with up- 
right heads that play at hand-ball with the clouds, alternate with one another, so 
that first the right, then the left, then the right one beyond strike our view, each one 
half obscured by its fellow in front, each showing itself level-browed with its com- 




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rades as we come even with it, each a score of hundreds of dizzy feet in height, rising 
perpendicular from the water and the track, sphntered atop into airy pinnacles, 
braced behind against the almost continental mass through which the chasm has been 
cleft. This is the Royal Gorge! 

When first examined it seemed impossible that a railway could ever be con- 
structed through this stupendous cafion to Leadville and the West. There was 
scarcely room for the river alone, and granite ledges blocked the path with their 
mighty bulk. In time, however, these obstructions were blasted away, a road-bed, 
closely following the contour of the cliffs, was made, and to-day the cafion is a well- 
used thoroughfare. But its grandeur still remains. After entering its depths, the 
train moves slowly along the side of the Arkansas and around projecting shoulders 
of dark-hued granite, deeper and deeper into the heart of the range. The crested 
crags grow higher, the river madly foams along its rocky bed, anon the way becomes 
a mere fissure through the heights. Far above the road the sky forms a deep blue 
arch of light; but in the Gorge hang dark and sombre shades which the sun's rays 
have never penetrated. The place is a measureless gulf of air with solid walls on 
either side. Here the granite cliffs are one thousand feet high, smooth and unbroken 
by tree or shrub, and there a pinnacle soars skyward for thrice that distance. No 
flowers grow, and the birds care not to penetrate the solitudes. The river, sombre 
and swift, breaks the awful stillness with its roar. Soon the cleft becomes still more 
narrow, the treeless cliffs higher, the river closer confined, and, where a long iron 
bridge hangs suspended from the smooth walls, the grandest portion of the cafion 
is reached. Man becomes dwarfed and dumb in the sublime scene, and Nature ex- 
hibits the power she possesses. The crags menacingly rear their heads above the 
daring intruders, and the place is like the entrance to some infernal region. 

Escaping from the Gorge we soon arrive at Salida, Colorado. At Salida we are 
to leave our Pullmans for a slight break in our journey over a Narrow Gauge line to 
the summit of Marshall Pass and return, — another three hours' ride of thrilling in- 
terest. 

AMONG THE CLOUDS. 

Leaving Salida, the Narrow Gauge line takes us through Poncha Pass, whose 
lesser glories lead up to the grand surprises of Marshall Pass, as an introductory 
symphony leads up to the triumphant music of a majestic march, the traveler makes 
his advent. Gradually the view becomes less obstructed by mountain sides, and 
the ey6 roams over miles of cone-shaped summits. The timberless tops of towering 
ranges show him that he is among the heights and in a region familiar with the 
clouds. Then he beholds, stretching away to the left, the most perfect of all the 
Sierras. The sunlight falls with a white transfiguring radiance upon the snow- 
crowned spires of the Sangre de Cristo Range. Their sharp and dazzling pyramids, 
which, near at hand, are clearly defined, extend to the southward until cloud and sky 
and snowy peak commingle and form a vague and bewildering vision. To the right 
towers the fire-scarred front of old Ouray, gloomy and grand, solitary and forbidding. 
Ouray holds the pass, standing sentinel at the rocky gateway to the fertile Gunnison. 



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Slowly the steeps are conquered, until at last the train halts upon the summit of 
Marshall Pass. The awful silence of the storm-tossed granite ocean lies beneath. 
The traveler looks down upon four lines of road, terrace beyond terrace, the last so 
far below as to be quite indistinct to view. These are only loops of the almost spiral 
pathway of descent. Wonder at the triumphs of engineering skill is strangely 
mingled with feelings of awe and admiration at the stupendous grandeur of the 
scene. The party will have an opportunity to ascend to the observatory constructed 
above the station, which elevation commands a view of both Atlantic and Pacific 
Slopes. One of, if not quite, the most awe-inspiring views on the continent. 

Retracing our steps we are soon again at Salida, and in our Pullmans moving on 
toward Leadville; after Leadville comes the Cafion of the Grande River. 

Through an Arcadian valley the approach to Fremont Pass is made. A famous 
pass, with the historic name of him who has been called the Pathfinder, although a 
later day has witnessed greater achievements than his among the Rocky Mountains. 
A journey here deserves the title of a pilgrimage, for from the summit of this pass 
the traveler can discern the Mount of the Holy Cross. The scene is one replete with 
vivid interest. Fainter and fainter grow the lines of objects in the valley, until at 
last the clouds envelop the train, and at the next moment the observer looks down 
upon a rolling mass of vapor through which the light strikes in many colored beams. 
The sublimity of the scene forbids all thoughts other than those of reverence and 
rapture. The railway crosses the pass at an altitude of 11,540 fee — higher than any 
iron trail yet established in North America or the Old World. 

MOUNT OF THE HOLY CROSS. 

From the crest of Fremont Pass can be seen the Mount of the Holy Cross. It 
is a summit that would attract the eye anywhere, its foot hidden in verdurous hills, 
guarded by knightly crags half-buried in seething clouds, its helmet vertical, frown- 
ing, plumed with gleaming snow, 

"Aye, every inch a king." 

The snow-white emblem of the Christian faith gleams with bright splendor against 
an azure sky. The cross is formed by two transverse cafions of immense depth, 
riven down and across the summit of the mountain. In these cations lie eternal snow. 
The symbol is perfect in shape, and while gazing with wonder and awe upon this 
"sign set in the heavens," the adventurous wayfarer at last realizes that he has reached 
that height "around whose summit splendid visions rise" and those thrilling lines of 
Keats come involuntarily to his lips: 

"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 

When a new planet swims into his ken; 
Or like stout Cortes, when with eagle eyes 

He stared at the Pacific — and all his men 
Looked at each other with a wild surmise — 

Silent upon a peak in Darien." 



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Shining grandly out of the pure ether and above all turbulence of earthly strife, 
it seems to say: "Humble thyself, O man! Uncover thy head, forget not that as high 
as gleams the splendor of this ever-living cross above thy gilded spires, so are the 
thoughts of its Creator above thy thoughts, His ways above thy ways." And then 
comes the Caiion of the Grande. 

THE CANON OF THE GRANDE. 

The Caiion of the Grande River is approached through the valley of the Eagle. 
Gradually the valley narrows, high bluffs hem us in on the left, the river is close to 
the track on the right, and its fertile banks suddenly change into a tumbled, twisted, 
black, and blasted expanse of scoria. The few trees on the hither side of the stream 
arc also black, an inheritance of fire, the waters under the black banks and reflecting 
the blackened trees, take on a swarthy hue — a stygian picture! Just beyond, a dis- 
tance glimpse of fertile country, and the clear waters of the Eagle are lost in the 
muddy current of the Grande, and a caiion greater in extent and more varied in charac- 
ter than that of the Arkansas opens before us. 

Vast bastions of granite, strata on strata, rise to a stupendous height, braced 
against rock masses behind them infinitely vaster. Suggestions of the Sphinx and of 
the pyramids can be caught in the severe and gigantic rock-piled structure on every 
hand. These are not made up of boulders, nor are they solid monoliths, like those 
in the Royal Gorge. On the contrary, they are columns, bastions, buttresses, walls, 
pyramids, towers, turrets, even statues of stratified stone, with sharp cleavage, not 
in the least weather-worn, presenting the appearance of Brobdignagian masonry, 
hence I use the phrase, "rock-piled structures," advisedly and as best descriptive of 
what there exists. 

Whirling around a headland of glowing red rock, which it seems ought to be 
called "Flamingo Point," we are in a region of ruddy color and of graceful forms. 
Minarets, from whose summits the muezin's call might readily be imagined falling 
upon the ear of the dwellers in this "Orient in the West," spires more graceful than 
that of Bruges, more lofty than that of Trinity, towers more marvelous than Pisa's 
leaning wonder, columns more curious than that of Vendome, splintered and airy 
pinnacles, infinite in variety, innumerable! inimitable! indescribable! 

In a moment darkness and the increased rumble of wheels — then light and 
another marvelous view. We have passed tunnel No. i, the portcullis; darkness 
again for a moment, then the blue sky above us. We have entered through the pos- 
tern gate; darkness for the third time, absolute, unmitigated blackness of darkness — 
this must be "the deepest dungeon 'neath the castle mote" — but soon again we see the 
blessed light, and there before us lies Glenwood Springs. 

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer, October 14th, 1894. — "In the Alps of America."] 

"Glenwood Springs is somewhat of an eye-opener to the man with old-fashioned 
ideas about the wild and woolly West. It is a smart town, with electric lights, etc., 
and is entirely up to date. The town is famous for its springs, of which there are 



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many of every kind and temperature. But the imposing feature is the Hotel 
Colorado. It is not particularly flattering to a Philadelphian to find after a 2,500- 




Hotel Colorado, Glefiwood Springs, Col. 

mile journey a hotel which is so far ahead of anything in his own city that he feels 
called upon to blush.* 

"The hotel is built in Mexican style of architecture, and rests at the foot of a 
mountain. In front is a large park filled with fountains, on all sides are the springs, 
and near at hand the swimming pool, which is one of the most marvelous things in 
America. The hotel is built of peach-blow colored stone and Roman brick. It is 
furnished lavishly, but in excellent taste. Everything that can be thought of is pro- 
vided for the comfort of the guests. You sleep in the softest of beds, in the most 
elegant apartments. You eat of the fat of the land, cooked till it melts in your 
mouth, and served by dainty New England maids in spotless caps and aprons. You 
sit on the porch and loaf; you bathe in the pool, and swim to your heart's content; 
you eat again, loaf again, dine, and sit on the piazza at night with a panorama before 
you worth a journey to Mars. The fountains shoot up hundreds of feet, and electric 
lights throw various colors on them, while an orchestra plays sweet music. It is like 
fairyland. You feel like driving a stake and never leaving. 

"I have been in many lands, but never reached a more delightful spot. There 
are a great many springs of various properties, and varying in temperature from 40 
degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. The bathing pool is 600 feet long, no feet wide, 
and from three and one-half to six and one-half feet deep. It is fed from a hot 
spring, which discharges 2,500,000 gallons daily at a temperature of 124 degrees. The 
mineral quality of the water is excellent for gout, rheumatism, and kindred diseases. 
I know of no place in the world where enterprise has done so much, 

"But the most novel attraction is the vapor cave. Here one steps from his dress- 
ing-room into the very side of the mountain, into an atmosphere heavy with the hot, 



* The reader will notice that this was written in 1894, before the Hotel Walton was built. 



22 GILLESPIE'S POPULAR TOURS. 

sulphurous vapors of the waters that flow beneath, and the result is a profuse perspi- 
ration, which is supposed to carry away with it those poisons with which the system 
has become freighted. The effect of both kinds of baths is tonic, and one comes 
forth feeling like a Rocky Mountain antelope. I know of no place in this country 




The Swimming Pool, Glcnwood Springs, Col. 

to equal Glenwood Springs for delights, and I predict that it will shortly become one 
of the great resorts for health and pleasure." — Rev. Frederick Campbell. 

The party will remain at Glenwood Springs for several hours, and it will cer- 
tainly prove to be one of the most delightful "rest" places of the entire Tour. Of 
course we will dine at the palatial Hotel Colorado. 

Leaving Glenwood Springs we press on toward Salt Lake City. 



SCENERY EN ROUTE TO SALT LAKE CITY, 

The space of over one hundred miles intervening between the Grande and Greet) 
Rivers resembles a billowy desert, and is especially interested for its wild and peculiar 
characteristics. Close by, on the north, are the richly-colored Book Cliffs, while 
away to the southward the snowy groups of the Sierra la Sal and San Rafael glisten 
in the distance. Between them may be distinguished the broken walls which mark 
the Grand Cafion of the Colorado, scarcely fifty miles away. Beyond Green River 



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and Castle Valley commences the steep ascent of the Wasatch Mountains, and the 
beautiful in Nature again appears. 

Near the Azure Cliffs, so called from the color of the clay, the Green and Grand 
Rivers join to form the sublime Colorado, which empties into the Gulf of California. 
Beyond is Castle Caiion, at the entrance to which stand two towering sandstone 
shafts which rise to the height of 500 feet, looking like monstrous castles, 
with battlements, bas- 
tions, and turrets 
guarding the way, and 
just wide enough 
apart for the train to 
pass between. The 
caiion which follows 
is another of sublime 
beauty. Great walls 
and dome-appearing 
rocks lift on either 
side in appalling 
grandeur, and the 
tourist is deeply im- 
pressed with the sub- 
limity of the scene. 
After a few miles 
through this grand 
gorge the train 
plunges into the 
heart of the Wasatch 
Mountains, and then 
emerges into the 
beautiful and fertile 
valley of Utah, in the 
centre of which lies a 
long, blue sheet of 
water, Utah Lake. 

Guarding the way 
to Price River Cahon, 

through which the railroad runs into the very heart of the range, stands Castle Gate, 
similar in many respects to the gateway in the Garden of the Gods. The two huge 
pillars, or ledges of rock composing it, are offshoots of the cliffs behind. They are 
of different heights, one measuring 500 and the other 450 feet from the top to the 
base. Once past the gate, and looking back, the bold headlands forming it have a 
new and more attractive beauty. They are higher and more massive, it seems, than 
•when we were in the shadow. Huge rocks project far out from their perpendicular 
faces. No other pinnacles approach them in size and majesty. They are landmarks 




Castle Gate, Utah. 



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up and down the caiion, their lofty tops catching the eye before their bases are 
discovered. 

Soldier Summit is the next striking feature on the route to Salt Lake; then come 
in quick succession the Red Narrows and Spanish Fork Caiion. These are all char- 
acterized by beauty and grandeur; they are full of charming contrasts, soft contours, 
and whispering waters. 

Utah Valley resembles, in its Arcadian loveliness, the vales of Scotland, and is a 
mountain-girdled, well-cultivated park. 

Utah Lake lies in the centre of the valley of the same name. It is a picturesque 
sheet of clear, fresh, water, to the north of which lie the Mormon towns of Provo and 
Springville. The scene is an entrancing one. Eastward the oblong basin is shut in 
by the Wasatch Mountains, and on the west is the Oquirrh Range. Northward are 
low hills, or mesas, crossing the valley and separating it from that of the Great Salt 
Lake, while in the south the east and west ranges approach each other and form blue- 
tinted walls of uneven shape. To the left of this barrier. Mount Nebo, highest and 
grandest of the Utah peaks, rises majestically above all surroundings. Its summit 
sparkles with snow, its lower slopes are wooded and soft, while from it, and extend- 
ing north and south, run vast, broken, vari-colored confreres. The valley is like a 
well-kept garden; farm joins farm; crystal streams water it, and scattered about in 
rich profusion are long lines of fruit trees, amid which are trim white houses. Salt 
Lake City is visible, and beyond slumber the waters of the Great Salt Lake. 

At Salt Lake City the party will remain for a full day, giving ample time for visit- 
ing the places of interest about the city, also for a run out to Soltaire Beach, on 
Great Salt Lake, — included in the Tour. 

Salt Lake City, the interesting city by the great salt sea, is a veritable garden. 
Low and picturesque adobe houses harmonize in their cool, quiet tones with the ex- 
tensive orchards of fruit and gardens of flowers which surround them. Back upon a 
"bench," and several hundred feet above the city, is Fort Douglas, the flag of the 
Republic standing out in bright relief against the Wasatch. The Oquirrh Mountains 
shut in the valley to the west, the Great Salt Lake, 20 miles away, glimmering in the 
sunlight like a stream of silver. The great object of interest to the tourist and 
stranger is Temple Square; here are situated the great ecclesiastical buildings of the 
Mormon Church. 

THE GREAT SALT LAKE. 

The most wonderful feature of this wonderful Tour, the mightiest marvel of all- 
marvelous Utah, an ocean of majestic mystery clad in beauty divine, is Great Salt 
Lake, the American Dead Sea. Among all earth's weird wonders in water it has but 
one rival or peer — the miracle-made sea whose waves of doom and oblivion roll over 
Sodom and Gomorrah. Think of a lake from 2,500 to 3,000 miles in area, lying a 
thousand miles inland, at an altitude of 4,250 feet above the sea level, whose waters 
are six times as salt as those of the ocean; and, while it has no outlet, four large rivers 
pouring their ceaseless floods of fresh water into it without raising its mysterious sur- 
face a fraction of an inch, or ever diminishing, so far as chemical analysis can de- 








AT GREAT SALT LAKE. 



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termme, its indescribable saltiness. Where does all the water go? Where does all 
the salt, that no streams can freshen, come from? Where are the vast saline maga- 
zines from which it draws its everlasting supplies? One may stand upon its shores 

and ask a thousand such 
questions, but no answer 
comes from its mysterious 
depths, in which nothing 
lives but death and silence. 

It may seem preposter- 
ous to talk of the finest sea 
bathing on earth a thousand 
miles from the ocean; but 
truth is no less truth be- 
cause it appears absurd. The 
sea bathing in Great Salt 
Lake infinitely surpasses 
anything of the kind on 
either the Atlantic or Pacific 
Coasts. It is a prompt and 
potent tonic and invigorant 
of body and mind, and then 
there is no end of fun in get- 
ting acquainted with its 
peculiarities. A first bath in 
it is always as good as a cir- 
cus, the bather being his or 
her own amusing trick mule. 
The specific gravity is but a 
trifle less than that of the 
Holy Land Dead Sea, the 
actual figures with distilled 
water as unity being, for the 
ocean 1.027, for Salt Lake, 
1. 107, and for the Dead Sea, 
1. 1 16. The human body will 
not and cannot sink in it. 
You can walk out in it where 
it is fifty feet deep, and your 
body will stick up out of it 
like a fishing cork from the 
shoulders upward. You can 
sit down in it perfectly secure 
AT r , . where it is fathoms deep. 

Men he on top of it with their arms crossed under their heads and smoke their cigars 
Its buoyancy is indescribable and unimaginable. Any one can float upon it at the first 




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trial; there is nothing to do but lie down gently upon it — and float. But swimming is an 
entirely different matter. The moment you begin to "paddle your own canoe" lively 
and — to the lookers-on — mirth-provoking exercises ensue. When you stick your hands 
under to make a stroke your feet decline to stay anywhere but on top; and when, after 
an exciting tussle with your refractory pedal extremities, you again get them beneath 
the surface, your hands fly out with the splash and splutter of a half-dozen flutter 
wheels. If, on account of your brains being heavier than your heels, you chance to 
turn a somerset and your head goes under, your heels will pop up like a pair of frisky 
didapper ducks. You cannot keep more than one end of yourself under water at once, 
but you soon learn how to wrestle with its novelties, and then it becomes "a thing of 
beauty" and a joy for any summer day. In the sense of luxurious ease, with which it 
envelops the bather, it is unrivaled on earth. The water is as clear as crystal, with a 
bottom of snow-white sand, and small objects can be distinctly seen at a depth of 20 
feet. There is not a fish or any other living thing in all the 2,500 or 3,000 square miles 
of beautiful and mysterious waters, except the yearly increasing swarms of summer 
bathers. It is the ideal sea-bathing place of the world. 

After an invigorating plunge in Great Salt Lake, we return to the city, and again 
take up our journey westward toward the Alkali Desert and the Sierra Nevadas to 
Sacramento, California, our next stop of any importance. 

The Tour has been so arranged throughout as to pass through the finest scenery 
by daylight, and the deserts by night. Just beyond Terrace, Utah, lies the great Al- 
kali Desert, the greater portion of which is crossed before we stop the next morn- 
ing, at Reno, Nevada, for breakfast. Soon 
after leaving Reno we are in the heart of ^ jf-= 

the Sierra Nevadas, stopping at Summit, 
on the very crest of the Range (with ocean 
level 7,017 feet below), for lunch, and in 
the afternoon we delight ourselves with 
the magnificent scenery of the Sierra Ne- 
vadas, especially that which opens before 
us in the descent of the range toward Sac- 
ramento. Magnificent caiions, yawning 
precipices, innumerable snow sheds (one 
series being 42 miles in length). In- 
describably grand. For many days to 
come we will be in the midst of mountains. 
The whole State of California seems to be 
made up of mountain ranges, but wait un- 
til your eyes behold the wonderful valleys 
which have made California "the land ot 
sunshine, fruit, and flowers." 

The party will remain at Sacramento, 
California, for the entire day, Sunday, July Qth, a day of rest that will prepare the party 
for the last stage of the going journey, from Sacramento to Los Angeles. Hotel head- 







Hotel Van Ntiys, Los Angeles. 



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quarters will be the Golden Eagle, one of the finest in the city. Then on to 
Los Angeles, arriving at the metropolis of Southern California, Monday, July loth, 
at 4 p. M. 

While at Los Angeles the party will take their meals at the splendid new hotel, 
Van Nuys, northwest corner Main and Fourth Streets. 

The National Educational Association Convention will be in session from July 
nth to 14th, and, of course, the party will remain at Los Angeles, with Hotel Van 
Nuys for headquarters, during all of that period. 



SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 

During most of the period occupied by the story of California the large district, 
comprising about one-fourth of the State, was regarded as a desert. It is now the 
remarkable country known distinctively as Southern California. 

This country alone, of all the territory of the United States, except southern 
Florida, is really described by the much-used term, "sub- 
tropical." Lacking much of being a hot country, and 
with a summer whose days are nearly all characterized 
by the trait of being warm in the sunshine and cool in the 
shade, there is yet never any actual cold in winter or op- 
pressive sultriness in summer. Nearly all the products of 
the tropics grow here in astonishing vigor and profusion. 
Most of the beautiful plants and trees of foreign lands 
have been imported, and flourish. It is in effect the out- 
of-doors quick-bed and hot-house of America. Flowers 
delicate, rare, and costly everywhere else, here thrive 
and climb and grow large. Annuals become perennial, 
pulpy stems become wood, things that should die in 
autumn grow all winter. The fig and the olive have 
always presented to us the idea of something foreign, 
semi-biblical and anti-Saxon. Here they are common 
and hardy trees, with innumerable others of foreign 
foliage that line the avenues of towns like Pasadena and 
Riverside, and adorn the yards and walks of Los An- 
geles. 

The sensations of South California are peculiar, and 
have often been described. A renowned resort for in- 
N' \ JS*"' ? iAi-.^Ji- valids and tired people, industry has accompanied and 

[V M .jL ."^ ...jI^j. -« «% ^i| out-run the health seeker. The commercial products of 
the country have long been established in the markets, 
and this product is immense. What the nation needed in 
all those things that were once luxuries, and are now daily 
necessities, come from here. The orange, the lemon, the 
fig, and the raisin grape, are among the common staples. 




Mt. Lowe Railway, near 
Los Angeles. 



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Millions of gallons of wine are produced. The valley lying between mountain ranges 
is a distinctive feature of the topography, and each of these valleys is a place unique to 



the unaccustomed 
— the old miracle 
has been exten- 
eye, clothed in a 
ness, above the 
glow with color to 
brown mountains, 
crystallized exhala- 
of the trained, the 
cated, and the 
wealthy have 

found permanent 

homes amid these 

scenes, whose 

charm cannot be 

explained in 

words, but appeals 

to the dullest 

senses. Los An- 
geles, considered 

as an instance, 

contains more 

people who have 

fixed incomes, and who have 

found here the charm that de- 
tains, than any other city of the 

United States. Those who do 

not remain come and go, and in 

thousands of cases the pilgrim- 
age is regular and annual. 

There are a large number of 

interesting sights within easy reach of Los Angeles, 

and during the stay in that city, ample opportunity for 

seeing them will be afforded. 

During the time spent in Southern California the 

members of the party will be entitled to a two-day trip 

to Santa Catalina Island, the dates for that trip to be 

selected by the members. 



eye. A seeming miracU 
of water from a rock— 
sively performed. To th« 
kind of beautiful arid 
aridness these valleys 
their edges against the 
Cities have arisen like 
tions. A multitude 
refined, the edu- 




Avalon and Vicinity, Santa Cata- 
lina Island, So. Cat. 



A MAGIC ISLAND-SANTA CATALINA. 

Hardly three hours and a half from Los Angeles, Southern California, is Santa 
Catalina, an island 22 miles long, a park in the Pacific, a mountain range at sea; a 



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bit of the world by itself, which in its climate, natural beauties, and opportunities for 
sport comes as near perfection as one can find. It abounds in beautiful and lofty 
mountains, deep gorges, stupendous rock cliffs, and precipices. Its south and west 
coast has the surf and a bracing climate; its north and east is a region of calms, 

little bays with glass-like 
surfaces reflecting the 
rocks and mountains. 
Avalon, upon the bay of 
that name, has a climate 
nearer the ideal than any 
in America. The winter is 
the season of verdure. The 
days are mild and balmy, 
the nights lack the chill of 
the mainland, and there is 
little difference in tem- 
perature between day and 
night. Winter it is in 
name alone, as the island 
is then a semi-tropic gar- 
den. There is a total lack 
of malarial taint, Santa 
Catalina being a natural 
sanitarium. The summers are equally remarkable. At Avalon a really hot period, as 
it is understood in the East, is unknown, and from May until November there is a 
succession of beautiful days, without a suspicion of squall or storm of any kind. 

The Teachers' Convention closing on July 14th, at midnight the party leaves in 
their Pullmans for the run to San Francisco, homeward bound. There is so much of 
interest in and around San Francisco that three days will be spent in that city. Hotel 
Pleasanton will be our headquarters for sleeping purposes as well as meals. 

[Note the following from Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.^ 

"One of the finest hotels in America is the Pleasanton, situated on the corner of 
Jones and Sutter Streets, in San Francisco. Two years ago last May the house 
passed into possession of O. M. Brennan, who has had 20 years' experience as hotel 
man on the Pacific coast. 

"The position of the hotel is first-class; in an aristocratic district of San Francisco, 
not far from the places of amusement and general stores of the city. Six blocks be- 
low is Kearney Street, the fashionable promenade, to which the Sutter Street cars, 
which pass the door, take you direct. Another important consideration i§ the elevation 
of the Pleasanton, it being a gentle slope, not sufficiently steep to weary out the weak- 
est, but enough to insure perfect drainage. From the upper story of the Pleasanton 
one of the finest views in the world is obtainable. On three sides stretch the blue 
waters of the bay, covered with steamers, sailing vessels, and smaller craft, with 



The Beach and Landing at Avalon. 



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Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda extending far away to the misty hills. Beyond 
question this house is the most nearly fireproof on the Coast." 

The site is a succession of hills. There is a group of these extending from the 
ferries westward to the Clifif 
House on the coast. The 
elevations vary between 170 
feet and 900 feet. Many are 
named, as Mission Peaks, 
Park Peak, Knob Hill, Tele- 
graph Hill, etc. It was to 
climb these hills of San 
Francisco that the cable 
street railway was invented, 
and here it had its first suc- 
cessful operation. Some of 
them, as Knob Hill, are the 
sites of the best residences. 
Far more than the usual 
number of minor attrac- 
tions exist in San Fran- 
cisco. Climate, location, 
and the annual influx of 
visitors have made plentiful 
theatres, gardens, squares, 
points, little voyages, etc. 
A unique place in the famous Golden Gate Park. It was a few years ago a succession 
of wind-blown sand-dunes. There are a thousand acres of it, it being three miles in 
length and half a mile wide. Outside the tropics there can be found no such assort- 
ment of unusual and unaccustomed plants growing out-of-doors; and perhaps no spot 
in the world has lent itself so readily to unexpected features of attractiveness. From 
the summit of the eminence called Strawberry Hill the sight that meets the eye is 
unequalled. City, bay, ocean, and distant mountains are all within the view, and im- 
mediately at hand the groves, walks, drives, arbors, and splendid vegetation of the 
park itself. 

Sutro Heights is near by; a kind of hill-top Arcadia that is free to the public. 
Here, again, sand-hills have been converted into a garden. 

Near-by resorts are reached by street cars, of which there are 220 miles of lines, 
and by boats and ferries. Among these resorts are Sausalito (the place of willows), 
the Golden Gate, Alcatraz (pelican) island. Angel Island, etc. There are in addition. 
Mill Valley, Mt. Tamalpais, and Tamalpais (land of the tamal. The tamal is the 
Spanish dumpling, made of corn meal, stuffed with minced meat and peppers, and 
boiled in a casing of corn-husk) Tavern. There is the Presidio and the batteries, 
whose late occupants are at this writing at Manila. There are drives by the Ocean 
Beach roads, and pastimes and attractions for the description of which there is no 




Hotel Pleasanton, San Francisco. 



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space in less than a good-sized volume. San Mateo (St. Matthew) is a beautiful re- 
sort and hotel, less than an hour's drive away. Mill Valley and Mt. Tamalpais Scenic 
Railway is an excursion for a day. It is a mountain railroad, not the diminutive 
make-believe amusement of summer parks, and is the most attractive of all the en- 
gineering triumphs of its kind. More than eight miles are traveled to make an air- 
line distance of three miles. 

Chinatown is a locality every one has heard of. It is the only instance of its 
kind, though other cities have such things in an attenuated form. Here is the actual 
life, with all the vices and few of the virtues, of that vast decaying race, whose country 
is being cut into slices and parcelled out by the nations of Europe. In these slummy 
streets is the display of all those race peculiarities that no other human being can 
understand. 



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A Bird's-eye View of Hotel Del Monte. 



From San Francisco the party will take the most delightful side trip included in 
the Tour, viz.: The trip to Hotel Del Monte, at Monterey, on the Bay of Monterey. 
En route to Del Monte, leaving San Francisco, the road enters the Santa Clara Val- 
ley, flanked on the east by the Bay of San Francisco, and on the west by the brown, 
rolling slopes of the Sierra Morena, and then the lofty, verdure-clad heights of the 
Santa Cruz Mountains. The valley as far as San Jose, fifty miles from San Francisco, 
is covered with almost a continuous forest of stately oaks. Embowered in the depths 
of this great forest are romantic towns and villages, with their glowing wealth of 
flowers, and the splendid country homes of millionaires set in the midst of parks and 
flower gardens. Here, also, is the broad demesne of the Burlingame Club, and far- 
ther along the red-tiled roof of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University is seen in the 
distance through the dark green foliage. * 



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A little farther on we see the Coast Range of mountains on the east, and the 
Santa Cruz Mountains in the west, the former brown and verdureless, the latter 
covered to the summits with forests. Then the Santa Clara Valley closes, and the 
Valley of the Pajaro (pronounced Pah-hah-ro) opens out, with its orchards and 
sugar-beet farms, and the train and the Pajaro River enter a picturesque gorge side 
by side, and shoulder each other for the right of way down to the Salinas Valley, 




Del Monte Grounds. 

noted for its sugar-beet and wheat farms. The broad Salinas River is crossed; then 
comes a stretch of low, rolling hills which, in spring, are covered with a gorgeous 
carpet of wild-flowers, and later in the brilliant yellow of the California poppy, cov- 
ering thousands of acres; and then suddenly the train enters a mystical forest and 
stops in the heart of an enchanted garden. This is the station of the Hotel Del 
Monte. 

The party will remain three days at 



HOTEL DEL MONTE, MONTEREY. 

While Monterey has always had the reputation, among old Californians, of being 
the healthiest and most delightful spot in their State, it is only since the completion 
of the Hotel del Monte (June, 1880), that tourists could have the comforts, enjoy- 
ments, and surroundings which refined and cultivated people desire, while availing 
thems.elves of its equable and salubrious climate. Since the opening of the Hotel 



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Del Monte, Monterey has been visited by thousands of tourists — from all parts of the 
United States and Europe — who heartily indorse all that is said in behalf of this now 
famous resort. 

There is probably no place upon the seashore in the State so replete with natural 
charms as Monterey. Its exquisite beauty and variety of scenery is diversified with 
ocean, bay, lake, and streamlet; mountain, hill, and valley; and groves of oak, 
cypress, spruce, pine, and other trees. The mountain views are very beautiful, par- 
ticularly the Gabilan and Santa Cruz spurs. 

Near the edge of a beautiful park, 126 acres of undulating land within the sound 
of the low murmurs of the waters of Monterey Bay, there rises above the mingled 




Arizona Garden, Del Monte. 



foliage of surrounding oak, pine, and cedar trees, a building of magnificent propor- 
tions, constructed in the modern Gothic style. This is the magnificent Hotel Del 
Monte. What can be said in sufficient praise of this marvelous creation? 

This famous hotel has often been described. Perhaps it comes as near to being 
the perfect resting-place of a perfect resort as there is on earth. Every advantage has 
been taken of the original inducement, the climate. There is a garden of 126 acres, if 
anything of the kind ought to be called a "garden." There are sensations in these 
grounds, a feeling about the place that cannot be encountered elsewhere in all the 
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its connection. It is very manifest that words are quite useless. Monterey and its 
charms have never been really described in all the rhapsodies she has ever evoked. 

The place is an all-the-year resort. In the winter one glides into it out of the 
snow almost imperceptibly. Yesterday it was the Sierra Nevadas; to-day it is eternal 
summer, backed 

by glistening ^ ^~-~-^ 

mountains, and 
faced by the shin- 
ing sea. 

There is an air 
of misty antiquity 
about the place as 
W'ell. The people 
who came first h:id 
this in their blood 
and have left it be- 
hind them wher- 
ever they have 
been. One cannot 
describe it, but it is 
all over the Cali- 
fornia coast, and 
on the little square 
peninsula of Mon- 
terey it is more 
perceptible than it 
is anywhere else, 
and this notwith- 
standing the fact 

that all that has beei« done by man is 
American, and comparatively new. 

The seventeen-mile drive (included in 
the Tour) is one of the chief attractions 
of the Hotel del Monte, and it is undoubt- 
edly the most remarkable highway in the 
world. It skirts the entire peninsula of 
Monterey, and throughout its entire length 
is macadamized with the same material as 
that employed on the walks and drives of 
the hotel grounds. In constructing it to 
furnish a rare pleasure to the hotel guests. 
no heed was given to the heavy expense which the undertaking involved. The road 
is hard, white, and clean, and is always free from dust and mud. It passes through 
Monterey and Pacific Grove: tunnels the dense forest of pine and oak; overlooks 




Hotel Del Monte. 




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Mt. Shasta. 



gorges and chasms in which huge waves tumble and roar; skirts the edges of dizzy 
promontories overhanging the sea: brings into view the largest colony of sea lions 

on the coast; penetrates the 
depth of a remarkable cypress 
grove; skims along past 
beaches strewn with colored 
pebbles; and then returns 
through a solemn and roman- 
tic cafaon to the starting point. 
After spending three de- 
lightful days at Del Monte, 
the party returns to San Fran- 
cisco, and at once prepare for 
our journey northward to 
Portland, Oregon, via the 
famous Shasta route. The 
schedule will be so arranged 
as to arrive at Redding, California, for breakfast, for shortly after leaving that point 
the beautiful scenery of the Shasta route begins. 

In three hours we are at Castle Crags, in the heart of the Shasta region. Shasta 
elevation, 14,442 feet, is 
of course, the predomi- 
nant, all-absorbing view 
from the Crags' sum- 
mit. Its majestic pro- 
portions and long 
sweeping profile lines 
are here exhibited to 
splendid advantage, but 
by and by the eye will 
turn to sweep the circle 
of the horizon, and what 
a vast cyclorama of 
grandeur it is! The 
pen drops powerless at 
any attempt of its de- 
scription, for words 
may be multiplied in- 
definitely, and still 
nothing has been said. 
The grandeur of the 
Crags themselves is 
better appreciated from the cafion below or from the Castle Lake or Big Castle Creek 
trails. These granite spires attain a much greater elevation than has been recorded 01 




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them. As seen from the railroad near the Castella 
traveUng northward), the great dome appears to 
Canon headlands, the boldest and most abrupt view 
seems to be the summit of the Crags, but there are 
thousand feet higher, and are splintered and riven 
In fact, Castle Dome and the Wintun Crags, as 
dwindle into insignificance as compared with the h 
ward of these points. 



Meadows (the first view to be had 
the extreme east, and the Wintun 
of all, on the west. Apparently this 
peaks back of these that rise over a 
into all manner of fantastic shapes. 

seen from the summit of Shasta, 
igher peaks which lie to tlie north- 




Mossbrae Falls and Shasta Soda Springs. 



Traveling northward from Castle Crags the cafion becomes more rugged and pic- 
turesque, the walls are more precipitous and the Sacramento river, confined in its 
narrow, rocky, channel, rushes in turbulent white rapids over its stony bed. 

The cozy little retreat of Upper Soda Springs, one mile above Dunsmuir, one of 
the early-day resorts, is still a favorite haunt of pleasure-seekers, and it still affords 
the same old-time cheer and hospitality that characterized it in the past. 

The first object that particularly attracts the eye is Mossbrae Falls, which con- 
sist of a great number of ice-cold rills that burst through the mountain sides in 
graceful tresses, trickling down through the ferns and mosses, affording an altogether 



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unique variety of waterfalls. Their fountain head is undoubtedly located far up in the 
snowy slopes of Shasta. 

Making a sharp detour about three miles north of the Shasta Springs, the road 
leaves the canon and the river, and, doubling upon itself, exhibits the wild grandeur 
of the river scenery to splendid advantage. 

After scaling the eastern wall of the canon the road turns again abruptly to the 
left, and now all eyes are bent upon the great scenic lodestone of northern California, 
Mount Shasta, the most satisfactory and unobstructed view of which is from Sisson 
Station, Strawberry Valley. 

There are five glaciers on Shasta, one on the south, two on the east, and two on 
the north. The most extensive and interesting of these is the Whitney, which takes its 
rise near the summit, flowing down to the east of Shastina, and clearly visible from 
Shasta Valley. The others, with possibly the exception of a glimpse of Konwakiton, 
on the south near the Red Rocks, cannot be seen from the railroad. The lesser peak, 
called Shastina, has a well-defined crater cap at its summit, about three-quarters of a 
mile across, and 1,500 feet deep. 

The party will arrive at Portland, Oregon, Saturday morning, July 22d, and im- 
mediately upon arrival will be transferred by carriage to the magnificent Hotel Port- 
land, for breakfast, after which the steamer, "Regulator," is boarded for a delightful, 
restful day on the Columbia River. The trip will extend to Cascade Locks, and re- 
turn. 

From the deck of the steamer the most beautiful views can be had of Multno- 
mah Falls, Oneonta Falls, Mount Hood, Mount Adams, Mount St. Helens, and the 
Cascades of the Columbia. 

Upon leaving the steamer we go at once to "The Portland." This establishment is 
one of the finest hotels on the Pacific Coast. It occupies a whole square in one of the 
pleasantest sections of the city. Dinner, Saturday, will be served at The Portland, 
and also the three Sunday meals, for the party will spend Sunday, July 23d, in Port- 
land. Although we use our Pullmans for sleeping purposes, yet, we are to have 
the freedom of the hotel — the same as if we slept as well as dined there. This is true 
01 all the hotels at which we stop throughout the entire trip. 

Early in the morning, Monday, July 24th, our train drops quietly down to Seattle, 
Washington. After breakfast we are to see the sights of the city, after which we 
board the steamer, "Flyer," for a delightful three hours' ride across Puget Sound to 
Tacoma, Washington, our train being sent around by rail, empty. After dinner, in 
the evening, at Hotel Tacoma, we are ofif again, this time our destination being Yel- 
lowstone National Park. 

We are now traveling on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and after we leave 
Seattle all meals en route between that point and St. Paul, with the exception of one 
meal at Spokane, Washington, at Hotel Spokane, will be served in the superb dining 
cjjTS in daily use on that line. The rates named in this Itinerary include breakfast and 
dinner on these dining cars, but does not include lunch. The latter is served a-la 
carte. On account of lunch being served on this plan it was possible to include same 
iti Itinerary. 



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During Tuesday, the 25th, we travel in the States of Washington, Idaho, and 
Montana— a ride full of interest, and relieved of all monotony. 

We pass Lake Pend d'Oreille, an expansion of the Clark Fork of the Columbia 



map^Tthe^ellowstone national park. 1 



i stage Roads. __— — Trails. 
Wagon " =^^ Geyser Formation 




River It lies ensconced among the mountains in a most enticing sort of a way 
with rocky islands rising above its mirror-like surface-one of the^most beautiful 
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The journey lies along the banks of the Clark Fork of the Columbia, a pictur- 
esque stream rolling between lofty and pine-clad mountains. Three times does the 
train climb up and down before the great chain of the Rockies is cleared. 

We pass through the southern portion of the Flathead Indian Reservation, and 
into the valley of the Jocko River. Then we find our train coiling about the 
mountain sides in the effort to make distance, and at last the pass, the Corsican de- 
file, is gained, and the Mission Ridge of the Rockies is passed. And soon we are 
climbing again for the second crossing; after leaving Mission Ridge, we descend to 
the foot of Bitter Root Valley, at Missoula, then down the valleys of Hellgate and 
Little Blackfoot Rivers. Climbing up steadily we reach the summit of the second 
range — the scenery entirely different from any through which we have passed. In 
our descent we pass through the Mullan tunnel, and at the foot of this second range 

lies the city of Helena. 

On and on we go until the third 
range is before us. Through continu- 
ous mountains the road winds, reveal- 
ing new and stupendous characters at 
every turn. At some places the rocks 
are prodigious in size, and of the most 
interesting contour. We glide up the 
grade of the Rock Caiion, steadily 
climbing all the time, until we come to 
the Bozeman tunnel, at an elevation of 
5,565 feet. After this third range is 
crossed, the road passes through a roll- 
ing country, with park-like spots, and 
at the foot of the range lies Living- 
ston. 

Wednesday morning, July 26th, we 
arrive at Livingston; at this point we 
take a barouche line down to Cinnabar, 
where the Yellowstone Park stages 
meet us, and then the delightful tour of 
the Park begins. 

Leaving our Pullmans at Cinnabar, 
the party at once take the stages of the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company, 
and at 12.45 P-M-. July 26th, we reach the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel — our first stop 
in the Park. 

THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. 

It is now generally conceded that no spot in the world, of the same size, com- 
pares with this noted resort in the variety and wonder of its scenic and physical phe- 
nomena. 

Lecturers spend much time and money to familiarize themselves with it so that 




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Libcrry Cap and Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, 
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they can recount to their audiences the wonderful things to be seen there. Artists ga 
there to paint and photograph it. Literary men and newspaper correspondents go 
there to write about it, and the people, the ordinary people, go there to see it. 

In 1872 there was an Act of Congress passed setting aside forever, as a public 
park, a section of country rectangular in shape, known as the Yellowstone National 
Park. The boundaries of the park are in a certain way somewhat indefinite. Sixty- 
two miles in length, from north to south, and 54 miles in width, with an area of 
about 3,350 square miles, is about as close as we can come to accuracy at present. 

The Park lies in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, with a narrow strip in 
Montana and Idaho. It is about 1,000 miles from St. Paul and Duluth to the east, 
and Portland to the west, 1,500 miles from Chicago, and about the same distance from 
San Francisco. 

The tourist season extends from June ist to October ist. The transportation 
equipment is the best obtainable, consisting mainly of Concord coaches of a special 
pattern, made to fit the 
necessities of Park travel. 
While being strong and 
durable, they are light, 
easy to get in and out of, 
and open at the sides, so 
that the passenger can 
easily see the country 
while»riding along. 

Warm clothing 
should be worn. This 
applies both to outer and 
under garments. Many 
changes of elevation and 
temperature are experi- 
enced, and during a 
good portion of each day for much of the Park season, one thus dressed may need no 
outer wrap. A mackintosh, rubber coat, or light, and unless heavy, thick-soled shoes 
are worn, rubbers are necessary to protect the feet. At Mammoth Hot Springs, and at 
some other places, tinted glasses are needed to protect the eyes from the dazzling 
eflfects of the light upon the white geyserite plains and terraces. 

It will be found convenient to take a trunk as far as Mammoth Hot Springs. A 
medium-sized grip or valise and a shawl-strap will hold all that is necessary for the 
actual tour in the Park, if the tourist is properly clothed. Laundrying can be done 
for tourists at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, while the trip through the Park is 
being made. 

Telegraph messages can be sent from the Association Hotels to any part of the 
world. 

The mode of transportation in the regular Park tour is that of the stage-coach 
entirely. 





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Cop.T-ighteJ. l^ili^, bv 

H. G. Peabody, Eostoii. 



Ideal Terrace, Yellowstone National Park. 



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The Transportation Company, when so requested, the night previous to departure 
of stage from Mammoth Hot Springs, will endeavor to seat persons, or parties of six, 
eight, or ten in the same vehicle for tlie trip. 

The Yellowstone Park Association conducts the hotels in the Park under 
franchises issued by the United States Government, and after a large expenditure 
of money, offers accommodations to tourists, with good service. 

For one trunk between Cinnabar and Mammoth Hot Springs, there is a charge 
of 50 cents. Valises, grips, etc., carried free. Twenty-five pounds baggage, carried 
on stages through Park, free. 

Note. — Charge for baggage is not included in our rates. 

Five and one-half days are to be devoted to the Tour of Yellowstone Park. 

Immediately after luncheon, July 26th, and as nearly as practicable at 2.30 p. m., 
the Association's guide will leave the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel for a two hours' 
trip over the formation. All are invited to accompany him, free of extra charge. 

THE PARK SCHEDULE. 

July 26th. — Leave Livingston at 8.30 A. m.; arrive Cinnabar 10.30 A. M. ; leave Cin- 
nabar at 10.45 A. M.; arrive Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel 12.45 P- M-> taking lunch, 
dinner, and lodging. 

July 27th. — Breakfast. Leave Mammoth Hot Springs at 8.00 a. m., arriving at 




A Train of Park Coaches. 



Norris at noon for lunch; leaving at 1.30 p. m., and arriving at Fountain Hotel, Lower 
Geyser Basin, at 5.30 p. m., for dinner and lodging. 

July 28th. ^ — Breakfast at Fountain. Leave for Midway and Upper Geyser Basin 
at 8.00 A. M. Lunch at Upper Geyser Basin. Return from Upper Geyser Basin to 
Fountain Hotel at 4.30 p. m. Dinner and lodging at Fountain Hotel. 

July 29th. — Breakfast at Fountain. Leave for West Arm of Yellowstone Lake at 
7.00 A. M. Lunch at Lake, and leave the Lake after lunch for Yellowstone Lake Hotel 
at Lake outlet. Dinner and lodging at Lake Hotel. 



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July 30th. — Breakfast at Yellowstone Lake. Leave for Grand Canon at 9.30 A. M., 
via Sulphur Mountain; arrive Grand Canon at 12.30 p. m. Lunch, dinner, and lodging. 

July 31st. — Breakfast. Leave Grand Canon at 10.00 a. m.; arrive Norris at 12.30 
p. M. Lunch. Leave Norris at 1.30 p. m. ; arrive Mammoth Hot Springs at 4.30 p. m. 
Dinner. Leave Mammoth Hot Springs at 6.30 p. m., arriving at Cinnabar at 8.00 
p. M.; leave Cinnabar at 8.15 p. m.; arrive Livingston at 10.15 P- M- 

Describing briefly the Park wonders, at Mammoth Hot Springs, we find that 
the springs have built up a series of remarkable terraces on the west side of a Uttle 
plateau, or basin, 1,000 feet above the Gardiner River, into which their waters flow. 
The whole plateau and the steep slopes extending down to the river are mainly com- 
posed of carbonate of lime deposits, resulting from springs now extinct. There are 
no active geysers at the present time in this basin. The principal objects of interest 
are the Liberty Cap and Thumb; the active springs. Pulpit Basins, Marble Basins, 
and Blue Springs, on the main terrace; and Cleopatra's Bowl, Cupid's Cave, and the 
Orange Spring, which are higher and further back. 

ON THE ROAD TO THE GEYSER. 

Leaving the hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs, the party will proceed to the Lower 
and Upper Geyser Basins via the Norris Geyser Basin. This journey and the subse- 
quent trips about the park will be made in comfortable Concord stages. The early 
part of the ride lies over a road which ascends the banks of Glen Creek to the Golden 
Gate. On the plateau above, from which a grand view is had of Electric Peak, Quad- 
rant Mountain, Bell's Peak, and Mount Holmes, Swan Lake is situated. Near Beaver 
Lake are the famous Obsidian Cliffs, a ridge of volcanic glass from 150 to 250 feet 
high and 1,000 feet in length. We halt at the Norris Geyser Basin Hotel for lunch. 
The principal attractions in the Norris Geyser Basin are numerous springs and a 
few veritable geysers, the chief one being the Monarch. The Hurricane is a fierce, 
roaring spring, and the Growler is the significant name of another vigorous steam and 
water vent. These are brought under inspection soon after leaving the Norris lunch 
station, and we proceed twenty miles further, past the beautiful Gibbon River Falls 
to the Fountain Hotel. 

THE LOWER GEYSER BASIN. 

The chief points of interest visited by tourists in the Lower Geyser Basin are the 
Fountain Geyser and Mammoth Paint Pots, which are situated near each other. 
The Fountain is a very handsome geyser, and is in eruption five or six times daily. 
The Paint Pots constitute one of the chief wonders of the park. In a crater forty 
feet in diameter, there are mud springs, in which the material cast forth has the ap- 
pearance of paint of different shades. 

THE EXCELSIOR GEYSER AND PRISMATIC LAKE. 

Next we drive to the Upper Geyser Basin, passing through the chief wonders of 
the Midway Geyser Basin. These are Turquoise Spring, the Prismatic Lake, and the 




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crater of the Excelsior Geyser. A very expressive title given to this last-named object 
is Hell's Half Acre. Two rivulets pour forth from the cauldron and from the neigh- 
boring springs, and the deposits along their channels are very brilliantly colored. 

The Turquoise Spring, near the Excelsior, is beautiful in its rich tints of blue, and 
Prismatic Lake, also near at hand, is another wonderful display of color. 



THE UPPER GEYSER BASIN AND ITS WONDERS. 

About five miles above the Excelsior Geyser we come to the Upper Geyser Basin. 
Here, in a nearly level tract inclosed by low hills, with the Firehole River flowing 
through it, and mainly upon the east side, are found the chief geysers of this mar- 
velous region. There are here forty gey- 
sers, nine of which are large, besides many 
beautiful hot springs. The Upper Basin 
group includes, with others, the following: 
Old Faithful, Castle, Bee Hive, Giant, 
Giantess, Grotto, Grand, Oblong, Splendid. 
Comet, Fan, Mortar, Riverside, Turban. 
Saw Mill, Lion, and Lioness. These are 
scattered over the surface of the basin, 
chiefly along the river bank, Old Faithful 
being at the southern extremity. The 
Grotto, Giant, Oblong, and Castle are near 
the road. The Bee Hive, with its hand- 
some cone, is upon the opposite side of the 
river from the hotel. Many beautiful 
springs are in proximity to the geysers, 
forming objects of interest second only to 
the mammoth fountains of hot water. Old 
Faithful makes a magnificent display, and is ^ 

one of the handsomest geysers in the Park. Beehive Geyser, Yellowstone National Park. 




i^Oi FROM iTHE LOWER GEYSER: BASIN TO YELLOWSTONE LAKE.; 

Next we proceed via the Upper Geyser Basin to Yellowstone Lake. The road 
twice crosses the Continental Divide, affording fine views of Shoshone Lake and a 
portion of the Park not otherwise seen. Lunch will be served at "West Bay." or 
'The Thumb,'' as it is often called. 

YELLOWSTONE LAKE, 

This magnificent sheet of water covers a superficial area of 139 square miles, with 
an irregular shore line of about 100 miles, and is the largest lake in North America 
at this altitude. The hotel, a new and commodious building, is built upon a blufif at 
the entrance of a little bay near the outlet. The view from this point is charming. 



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THE FALLS AND THE CANON OF THE YELLOWSTONE. 

Leaving the Lake Hotel early in the morning, we shall proceed to the Canon 
Hotel, passing on the way a wonderful object known as the Mud Volcano. It is a pit 
about twenty feet in depth, and from a spacious opening on one side at the bottom boil- 





ing mud surges forth witl:j great 
vehemence. The hotel will be 
reached about noon. The Yellow- 
stone Falls are two in number. At 
the head of the Upper Fall the river 
has a width of about 80 feet, and the 
waters plunge over a shelf between 
walls that are from 200 to 300 feet in 
height, upon a partially submerged 
reef 109 feet below. Dense clouds of 
spra}' and mist veil fully one-third 
of the cataract. Half a mile below 
this fall is the Lower or Great Fall, 
which is grander and more impres- 
sive than the other, though not more 
picturesque. Here the waters pour 
into the abyss of the Yellowstone 
Cafion, the sheer descent being 308 
feet. The best views are had farther 
down the trail, where many favoring 
points afford an outlook into the 
wonderful canon. Clouds of mist 
ascend from the foot of the falls, and 
the walls are covered with a rank 
growth of mosses and alga. The 



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cafion is considered the greatest of the park marvels. The gorgeous coloring of the 
cafion walls is its distinguishing feature. The beholder is no longer left in doubt as 
to the reason for bestowing the name of Yellowstone upon this remarkable river. 
The beautifully safifron-tinted walls give the explanation. There are other tints in 
opulence. Crimsons and greens are seen with all their gradations and blendings. 
Emerald mosses and foliage form the settings for dashes of bright rainbow colors. 

FROM THE CANON TO THE MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS. 

Leaving the Cafion Hotel Friday morning, we pass the beautiful Virginia Cas- 
cade, one of the prettiest sights in the park. From the Norris Geyser Basin, where 
we halt for lunch, we proceed to the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel. 

FROM THE YELLOWSTONE PARK EASTWARD. 

Departing from the hotel after dinner the same afternoon, Monday, July 31st, by 
stage, the party will proceed to Cinnabar, whence the route takes us back to Living- 
ston, on the Park Branch, and then eastward on the main line of the Northern Pacific 
Railway. For some 350 miles we follow the banks of the Yellowstone. Custer, 
Forsyth, and Miles City are places named in honor of military heroes. 




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Thirty-six miles east of Glendive and one mile west of Sentinel Butte we pass out 
of Montana, through which we have journeyed on the main line of railway 780 miles. 
The succeeding 367 miles lie within the State of North Dakota. Mandan, Bismarck, 
Jamestown, and Fargo are the chief cities passed through. We enter the State of 
Minnesota at Moorehead, and among the principal towns passed are Lake Park, De- 
troit, Wadena, Little Falls, and Anoka. The party will be due at Minneapolis on 
Wednesday morning, August 2d, at 8.00 a. m. After breakfast at Hotel Nicollet, 

we have the day before us for sight- 
seeing in the twin cities, Minneapolis 
and St. Paul. A carriage ride about 
the cities is included in the tour. 

Leaving Minneapolis in the 
evening, arriving at Chicago early 
the next morning, August 3d. After 
breakfast and dinner at Hotel Vic- 
toria, we leave for Niagara Falls, 
arriving at Niagara August 4th. 
5 p. M. At Niagara Falls August 
5th and 6th, leaving for Philadelphia 
at midnight August 6th, armving at 
the Reading Terminal 11 a. m., 
August 7th, 1899. 




The Train will be made up 
exclusively of Standard Pullman 
Palace Sleeping Cars (with one bag- 
gage car) for the exclusive use of the 
party. The Pullmans that are taken 
from Philadelphia will remain with 
us for the entire tour. 

Meals en route. Between Phila- 
delphia, Pa., and Denver, Col., all 
meals will be served in Palace Dining 
Cars. Three meals per day, with full 
dining car service. Along the Den- 
ver & Rio Grande Railway stops for 
meals will be made at the fine hotels 
operated by the Denver & Rio 
Grande Hotel Co. Along the Southern Pacific Railway, where dining cars are 
not available, the hotels are operated by the Southern Pacific Company, in- 
suring first-class service. Between Spokane, Washington, and Minneapolis, Minn., 
meals will be served in dining cars, as already stated in this Itinerary. At Santa 
Catalina Island, Del Monte, San Francisco, and during the tour of Yellowstone 



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National Park, the party will sleep in first-class Hotels, but during all the rest of the 
tour our chartered Pullman Palace Cars will be used. At Los Angeles those desiring 
room accommodations as well as meals, can procure same at $1.00 per day; where two 
room together the rate will be even lower. 

The Hotels used in connection with the Tour are strictly first-class. Notably 
Victoria Hotel, Hotel Colorado, The Windsor, The Barker, Hotel Van Nuys, Hotel 
Del Monte, The Pleasanton, The Portland, The Tacoma, The Spokane, Hotel Nicol- 
let, etc., etc. 

RATES. 

A 38-day Pacific Coast Tour at the following remarkably low rates, from Phila- 
delphia : 

Trip No. I is the Tour fully outlined on the preceding pages, leaving Philadelphia 
June 30th, 1899, and returning August 7th, 1899, and the rate for same, covering every 
necessary expense, for the entire Tour, is as follows: 

A. — Calling for one double berth in Standard Pullman Palace 

Sleeper, and all necessary expenses for entire tour, $275.00 

B. — Calling for one half berth in Standard Pullman Palace 

Sleeper, and all necessary expenses for entire tour, $250.00 



Trip No. 2 is the same as Trip No. i, so far as arrangements from Philadelphia 
TO Los Angeles are concerned; but at Los Angeles to leave the party, returning 
independently any time within the limit of the ticket (tickets will be good until Sep- 
tember 4th) and the rates are as follows: 

A. — Calling for one double berth in Standard Pullman Palace 

Sleeper from Philadelphia TO Los Angeles and all necessary ' 

expenses of the tour TO Los Angeles, $145.00 

B. — Calling for one half berth in Standard Pullman Palace 
Sleeper, from Philadelphia TO Los Angeles and all necessary 
expenses of the Tour TO Los Angeles, $132.00 

NOTE. — The rates named for Trip No. 2 include return portion of R. R. ticket 
back via the same route as that used going, or over Southern route if it is desired to 
return that way; but if one desires to return independently of the party via the North- 
ern route via Portland, Oregon, it will cost $12.50 additional for the R. R. ticket. 



THE RATES FOR TRIP No. i INCLUDE.— Round Trip R. R. Ticket from 
Philadelphia, Pullman Palace Car Service for the entire Tour, all meals en route, all 
the Side Trips and Carriage Rides mentioned in this Itinerary, all Hotel expenses 
where Hotels are used, necessary transfers, the Tour of Yellowstone National Park — 
in short, every necessary expense for the entire Tour is included in the rates named. 



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RATE FOR TRIP No. I B " ANALYZED " : 

Round Trip R. R. ticket between Philadelphia and Los Angeles,. $81.25 
Arbitrary rate charged by Southern Pacific Ry. Co. on account of 

returning via Northern route, 12.50 

Tour of Yellowstone National Park, 49.50 

Thirty-eight days' Board (meals served in dining cars and hotels 
as per Itinerary) ; one-half berth in Pullman Palace Sleeper for 
38 days, all Hotel accommodations, the following side Trips: over 
The "Loop," up Pike's Peak through the Garden of the Gods, 
to summit of Marshall Pass and return, to Great Salt Lake from 
Salt Lake City, to Santa Catalina Island, to Del Monte, up the 
Columbia River, and across Puget Sound; also all carriage rides 
and transfers mentioned in Itinerary, 106.75 



Total $250.00 

The above rates are based on the supposition that Eastern R. R. lines will name 
a one-fare rate to Chicago, in connection with the one-fare rate already named by 
Western lines from Chicago to Los Angeles. No one doubts but that this will be 
done. 

The Railroads used will be as follows: The Philadelphia & Reading, Lehigh 
Valley and Grand Trunk to Chicago; the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific to Denver; 
the Denver & Rio Grande to Grand Junction, Col.; the Rio Grande Western to Og- 
den, Utah; the Southern Pacific to Los Angeles, and via the Shasta Route to Port- 
land, Oregon; the Northern Pacific to Minneapolis, Minn.; the Chicago, Burlington 
& Quincy to Chicago, and the Grand Trunk, Lehigh Valley, and Philadelphia & 
Reading back to Philadelphia. 



Just a word about Pullman rate on regular trains. The regular rate for one double 
berth in Pullman Palace Car, round trip, between Philadelphia and Los Angeles, 
is $41.00 for continuous passage; no stop overs are allowed. Returning via Portland, 
$5.00 additional. When one desires to stop of¥, therefore, at different points of interest 
along the route, the Pullman rate would be considerably higher. "Our" cars are 
chartered for the 38 days; the low rates named would not be possible in any 
other way. 

The Yosemite Valley. — Any one desiring to make the tour of the Yosemite 
while in California and at the same time keep with the party for the remainder of the 
Tour, can easily do so by sacrificing the Santa Catalina Island trip, one day in Los 
Angeles, and one in San Francisco. 



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Advance Payment. — When registering for the Tour an advance payment of 
$10.00 is required, the balance, according to the trip selected, to be paid on or before 
June 26th, when R. R. tickets and "little Red Book" of coupons, covering entire 
Tour, will be ready for delivery. 

Remember that the number for the party is positively limited to 150, and in view 
of the fact that more than 200 people were turned away from the California Tour in 
'97, because their applications came in too late, if you desire a place, it would be well 
to act promptly. 

Correspondence solicited. Address (or call), 




639-643 N. Broad St., Phila., Pa. 




ECHOES OF '^ir 



From the President of the Penna. C. E. Union. 

"I want to thank you for the grand Western trip, which we took under your man- 
agement in 1897. The company and the accommodations were all that could be de- 
sired. We can never lose the joy and the pleasure we experienced in beholding for 
ourselves the grand wonders and the indescribable beauties of the Westland, with its 
awe-inspiring canons and gorges, its mountains and plains. The Shasta route, Mon- 
terey and Yellowstone Park were veritable wonderlands of beauty and delight. Every- 
thing of beauty in the Westland will hereafter be to us a joy forever. 

"Nor can I forget your untiring and ever-courteous efforts to make our trip what 
it was along the whole route, one of comfort and enjoyment." 

Clarence E. Eberman. 
Lancaster, Pa., April 12th, 1899. 



From the General Secretary Penna. State Sabbath-school Association. 

"I shall always cherish as one of the most delightful memories of our wonderful 
Christian pilgrimage the entire absence of all care we felt for our personal safety and 
comfort in your wise and willing hands. No bargaining for places at crowded 
points, no worries about routes, no scurrying to see the best — all was provided for, 
and we rested as we tramped and wondered and feasted. May thousands more have 
the great pleasure we had in your charge." 



Chas. Roads. 



Philadelphia, April nth, 1899. 



"Having visited the C. E. Convention at San Francisco, Cal., 1897, and after 
that accompanied the party to Seattle, Portland, Columbia River, Spokane, Yellow- 
stone Park, Minneapolis, and Chicago, it gives me pleasure to say that the itinerary 
previously arranged was most successfully conducted. Your courteous manage- 
ment, in my judgment, was a great success. Those who were associated with me dur- 
ing the trip often speak pf your kindness, courteous helpfulness, and satisfactory ar- 
rangements. My only regret now is that I cannot accompany you on other tours you 
are projecting. 

"I wish you continued success in conducting future parties." 

H. Mosser, 
Pastor First Reformed Church. 
Reading, Pa., April loth, 1899. 

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"Referring to the California tour of '97, I was perfectly satisfied with the way it 
was planned and conducted. I think you did everything which it was possible to do 
for the comfort and convenience of the tourists." 

R. L. Montgomery. 
Philadelphia, April loth, 1899. 



A "Minute" from the Advisory Board of the Philadelphia C. E. Union. 

"Resolved, That in accepting the report of Mr. W. A. Gillespie, upon the business 
of his office as Transportation Agent in the transfer of the Philadelphia Union and 
also the Pennsylvania Union to San Francisco and return, and in the examination 
of all matters which by his desire has been brought to our attention, we find cause for 
hearty congratulation and commendation. 

"Resolved, That we hereby thank Mr. Gillespie for the faithful performance of 
the onerous duties placed upon him, and his courteous patience and kindness to our 
members while away from their homes, and we desire to express our admiration for 
the ability displayed by him in arranging the outgoing and returning trips to the 
great satisfaction of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia delegates." 

(Signed) T. J. Grant Shields, 

President. 
(Signed) E. M. Dilkes, 

Recording Secretary. 



From the General Passenger Agent of the Northern Pacific Railway. 

"I am very glad to learn that you will organize and personally conduct a Pacific 
Coast and Yellowstone Park party during the coming summer. 

"It is no small undertaking to plan and carry out successfully an itinerary em- 
bracing 10,000 miles of rail travel, especially when your party numbers 500 or more 
people, and yet this is exactly what you did in '97, when you used our Line eastbound 
from Portland, Oregon, to St. Paul, including the Yellowstone trip. 

"In arranging with you for the proper movement of this people I found your 
plans so intelligently made in the best interests of the tourists under your care that it 
relieved us of a vast amount of work, secured for your party the best possible serv- 
ice, and thus gave to the individual members the greatest possible satisfaction. 

"It may interest you in this connection to know that your party of '97 was the 
largest that has visited the Yellowstone Park since it was thrown open to the public, 
and I hazard nothing in saying that no party, large or small, has ever seen the Park 
more thoroughly. 

"We shall be glad to see you on the Line again this coming summer, and you' 
may rest assured we will do everything in our power to make the journey for your- 
self and party a thoroughly enjoyable one." 

Chas. S. Fee. 
St. Paul, Minn., April nth, 1899. 



TOUR No. 2. 



The Great Lakes, Georgian Bay, Etc, 



THIS Itinerary will reach many who, in former years, have accompanied me on 
Christian Endeavor Side Trips in connection with International Conventions, 
but I want it distinctly understood that this Tour has no connection whatever 
with the C. E. Convention at Detroit in July. The Philadelphia Union, owing 
to an experimental change in its policy, will conduct no 
side trips whatever in connection with the Convention in 
question. Any one desiring to attend the Convention 
should communicate with W. H. Ball, 50 E. Washington 
Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia. 

Recognizing the fact, however, that many of our 
friends will be disappointed at not being able to again 
place themselves under the fostering care of the Union 

for the delightful Side Trips so easily accessible from Detroit, I have arranged for 
any such, and their friends, the delightful Tour outlined on the following pages. 

The Trunk Line Associations have agreed upon a one-fare rate to Detroit, which 
enables me to name an exceptionally small sum to cover every necessary expense for 
the entire Tour. 

It will be noticed that the schedule is so arranged as to keep clear of the Con- 
vention delegations, so that all "crowding" will thus be avoided. 




Briefly outlining the Tour, the party will leave Philadelphia from the Reading 
Terminal, Twelfth and Market Streets, Tuesday evening, July 4th, at 7.30, in Standard 
Pullman Palace Cars, the route being via the Philadelphia & Reading and Lehigh 
Valley Railroads to Niagara Falls, arriving at Niagara at 8 a. m., July 5th, there to 
remain for the day, , with Hotel Imperial as headquarters. 

NIAGARA FALLS. 

"Of all the sights on this earth of ours which tourists travel to see — at least of all 
those which I have seen — I am inclined to give the palm to the Falls of Niagara. In 
the catalogue of such sights, I intend to include all buildings, pictures, statues, and 

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wonders of art made by men's hands, and also all beauties of nature prepared by the 
Creator for the delight of His creatures. This is a long word; but, as far as my taste 
and judgment go, it is justified. I know no other one thing so beautiful, so glorious, 
and so powerful. I would not say that a traveler, wishing to do the best with his 
time, should first of all places seek Niagara. In visiting Florence he may learn almost 
all that modern art can teach. At Rome he will be brought to understand the cold 
hearts, correct eyes, and cruel ambition of the old Latin race. In Switzerland he 
will surround himself with a flood of grandeur and loveliness, and fill himself, if he 
be capable of such filling, with a flood of romance. The tropics will unfold to him 
all that vegetation in its greatest richness can produce. In Paris he will find the 




Niagara Falls. 

supreme of polish, the nc plus ultra of varnish, according to the world's capability 
of varnishing; and in London he will find the supreme of power, the ne plus ultra 
of work, according to the world's capability of working. At Niagara there is that fall 
of waters alone. But that fall is more graceful than Giotto's Tower, more noble than 
the Apollo. The peaks of the Alps are not so astounding in their solitude. The 
valleys of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica are less green. The finished glaze of life 
in Paris is less invariable, and the full tide of trade round the Bank of England is 
not so inexorably powerful." — Anthony Trollope. 

By spending the night at Niagara we have the opportunity of rambling through 
Niagara Park during the evening hours — the most delightful of the day. 

After breakfast in the morning, July 6th, we again resume our journey via the 
Grand Trunk Railway, and after four hours of travel through the western part of 
Ontario, we arrive at Detroit, Mich., the beautiful "City of the Straits." The city 



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was founded in 1701; the oldest white settlement in the West, and no other city on 
the American Continent has a history so full of incidents, with romantic and tragic 
interests. 




Wayne Hotel and Pavilion. 

The party will remain at Detroit, with the Wayne Hotel for headquarters, until 
the following morning, for our steamer will not leave for Mackinac Island until 9.30 
A. M., Friday, July 7th. 




S=4=*<?< ^:»*-M^==e<«t 



3: 







Detroit River Scenes. 



There is so much of interest to be seen in Detroit that the stop of 20 hours will be 
fully appreciated. 

In the evening, after dinner at the Wayne, the members of the party wend their 
way toward the wharf of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company, where the 



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magnificent steamer for the Lake trip to Mackinac Island is boarded; the steamer 
does not sail until morning, but the night is to be spent on board, staterooms having 
been secured and assigned far in advance. 

JUST A WORD ABOUT "OUR" STEAMER. 

With the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company safety,, comfort, and speed 
are the prime considerations. The steamers are of steel, practically new, constructed 

in the strongest pos- 
sible manner, pro- 
- '^ pelled by powerful 

engines, and are the 
largest and fastest 
side-wheelers on the 
Lakes. Equipped 
with a complete sys- 
tem of water-tight 
compartments to pre- 
vent sinking in the 
event of accident, 
with a fine outfit of 
life-boats, rafts, and 
lifcypreservers, and 
handled by a crew of thoroughly skilled, reliable men, the element of safety is raised 
to the highest attainable maximum. 



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" Our " Steamer for Mackinac Island. 




Parlor of D. & C. Line Steamer for Mackinac Island. 



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As to comfort — the main cabins are broad, roomy, elegantly finished in mahogany, 
thoronghly ventilated, lighted by electricity, and furnished only as trained judgment 
and money can furnish them. The staterooms, with their double berths, and the par- 
lors have room in abundance, are well aired, electric 
lighted, have the best of mattresses and blankets, and 
the whole are well cared for by skillful feminine hands. 
Also equipped with barber shop, bath rooms, etc. The 
large dining-room has seating capacity of no persons, 
and is situated aft below the main deck. It is ventilated 
by the McCreary system of pipes, which pass through 
packed ice. As the kitchens are forward of the dining- 
room and connected with it only by hallways and 
swinging doors, all suggestions of the mixed and un- 
desirable odors produced therein are removed from the 
other parts of the boat. The cuisine equals that pro 
vided in the best hotels, and the service is prompt and 
intelligent. 

In the construction and subsequent operation of 
these splendid steamers every device that human ingenuity has suggested has, after 
practical test, been placed in use. From stem to stern, from wheel to wheel they are, 
to use an expressive street phrase, "up to date." 

Early in the morning, July 8th, we enter upon one of the most delightful divisions 
of the Tour, viz.: the run through the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers. The summer 
homes of the well-to-do already dot the banks of both streams for their entire length, 
and are multiplying with each year. Through the beautiful St. Clair Flats region we 
find these homes in the greatest abundance. Club-houses, a score or more, of striking 
design, and cottages and mansions of equal picturesqueness and greater numbers, 
are patronized and inhabited by Detroiters almost entirely. It is a water community 
pure and simple, and might appropriately be termed Detroit's Venetian suburb, even 
though it is thirty miles distant from that city. And the islands — emeralds in a darker 
setting of the same color — must not be forgotten. With them the rivers are thickly 
populated, and their part in the picture furnished by nature is an important one. 




En Route to Mackinac. 



ON LAKE HURON. 

On the open lake little is seen except passing vessels until a way port is made. 
If the traveler is awake and interested, he can gather a good idea of the vital industries 
of each port by a general survey of what lies within immediate reach of his eye, for 
nearly the whole of each town is laid out on the lake shore. It requires but a glance 
to show him that Sand Beach has a fine harbor of refuge — the finest on the lakes — 
and that lumber cuts no figure in the business of the town, which is rather of a general 
nature. It is lumber, and nothing else, apparently at Alpena, Cheboygan, and Oscoda. 
Business at St. Ignace is of a general character. Observation and study of this coast 
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The ear-marks of the hunter and the camper-out may be seen all along the St. 
Clair River and at every port on the route. Many club and miscellaneous tents are 
pitched on the American bank of the river between Algonac and Port Huron, 
the men who are seek- 
ing a variety of summer • " 
sports as well as a sum- 
mer rest, appear in large 
numbers at the various 
lake ports bound to and 
from the well-stocked 
forests, lakes, and 
streams with which Up- 
per Michigan abounds. 

Our steamer is due 
at Mackinac Island at 
12.15 P- M., July 8th 
(Saturday), where the 
party is to remain (with 
the exception of the side trip to the "Soo") until Tuesday evening, July nth, with 
"The Grand" for hotel headquarters. 

Mackinac Island is very appropriately called "The Fairy Isle." 




Bird's-eye View of Mackinac Island. 



THE NATURAL SCENERY OF THIS ROCK-BOUND ISLE, 

Whose clif¥s of calcareous rock rise to a height of 300 feet above the water, is of 
the order that quickly captivates the true artist, and delights even the eye of the layman 
who cannot technically balance beauty with proportion. Nature, usually so sparing 
in her gifts to toiling, commonplace mankind, was in her mellowest, most charming 
mood when she erected this monument to the Creator. It abounds in a tumble of 
white clififs, in cavernous recesses, in which all is shade and repose-inviting, in foliage 
of the richest. With every rock, with every glen, the red-skinned child of the forest 
has associated his story, and it is always a story whose romanticism, pathos, and tender 
beauty have been the source of inspiration for the best poets, dead and living, of our 
land. 

Here and there on the island may be observed vestiges of the dense forest of iron- 
wood, oak, and rock maple which once covered it, but the young growth which has 
taken its place is developing sturdily. The paths and promenades of this wonderful 
little island overlook dainty vistas of valley and lake, and lead to spots freighted with 
beauty and romantic interest. For the camera and palette lover these views of land 
and water in their everywhere striking relation possess peculiar interest. In the flat 
country, with which the Middle States abound, the artificial must needs be called m 
to give tone and efifect; here nature has but to be copied as she is. No wonder the 
aborigines fought so bitterly against the encroachments of the powerful white. Amaz- 
ing it is that his leave-taking of those wondrous caverns and hills has not ere this 



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formed the theme of a story that in the hands of a gifted writer should appeal mightily 
to the finer sensibilities. 

AS A HEALTH 
RESORT. 

Thus was the late 
Dr. Drake impressed 
with the island: "The 
island is the most 
important summer 
resort to which we 
can direct the atten- 
tion of the infirm or 
the fashionable. As 
a health resort it is 
unsurpassed. Its 

cool, dry air, and the 
living streams of pure 

water which gush from the lime rock precipices, are just what are needed to bring 
back the glow of health to the faded cheek, and send the warm currents of life dancing 
through the system, superseding all necessity for nauseating iron, sulphur, and epsom 
salts." 

Habitual visitors will tell you that ennui is an affliction that no man complains of 




The Grand Hotel. 




Scenes on Mackinac Island. 



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here. He finds too much variety. Satiated with artificial pleasures — for the beauty, 
wealth, and fashion of many metropolitan cities congregate here — he has but to seek 
near at hand, the aid of nature. 

Of the island as a health resort, Dr. Mills, once post-surgeon, said: "From the 
hour of entering Lake Huron, your feelings will indicate that you have passed beyond 
the reign of miasma, dyspepsia, blue devils, and duns, and you look back upon the 
whole of them with gay indifiference, or a feeling of good-natured contempt, as every 
turn of the steamer's wheel carries you farther into the temperate and genial climate 
of the lakes, and away from your perplexities. Under these influences real diseases 
may abate, and the imaginary ones be forgotten, and this salutary mental excitement 
will not soon die away, for the historic associations, not less than the surrounding 




Glimpses of Mackinac Island. 



scenery, are well fitted to maintain it." Dr. Mann says: "A few whiffs of the air 
would make your lungs give a hygienic laugh. Children are crazy with animal spirits 
and eat in such a way as to demonstrate the paradox that the quantity contained may 
be greater than the container." 

Dr. Hammond, the famous physician, says: "I have no hesitation in saying that 
it is the best summer resort of which I have any knowledge, for persons whose nervous 
systems are run down, or who desire to be built up and strengthened." 

The Grand Hotel, "our" Hotel while at Mackinac, the best on the island and 
one of the largest in the country, stands high up on a hill-side, facing the straits. It 
opens July ist and closes September 20th, and has room for 1,000 guests at one time. 
Its rates are $4 to $5 a day. Representing a capital of $300,000, this immense building 



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is 650 feet long and five stories high. Its architecture is of the "Old Colonial" style, 
the distinctive features being a colonnade portico, 30 feet wide, upon which the win- 
dows of every floor open. The interior is well arranged and fully equal to every 
demand of the most fastidious taste. The lower floor is occupied exclusively by the 
dining-hall, drawing-room, and private parlors, w'ith the large rotunda ofiice in the 
center. The dining-hall is a mammoth apartment, capable of seating 600 people. It 
occupies the space of two stories, the vaulted ceiling being 27 feet overhead. The 
guest rooms are large, light, and airy. Each front suite is provided with a private 
balcony. The hotel is lighted by gas and electricity, heated by steam, and provided 
with elevator and electric call and fire-alarm bells. It is also supplied with barber 
shop, bath rooms, steam laundry, and a first-class livery. A metropolitan orchestra 




Scenes En Route to the " Soo " Locks 



is in constant attendance. The grounds have been made very attractive and a casino 
constructed for indoor sports. Sunday, July 9th, will be spent at Mackinac Island, 
at the Grand Hotel. 

On Monday morning, July loth, the party will take a side Trip by steamer to the 
celebrated "Soo" Locks, at Sault Ste. Marie, the route being through the beautiful 
scenery of the St. Mary's River. The steamer, after rounding Mackinac Island, fol- 
lows the northern shore of Lake Huron as far as Detour, at the entrance of the St. 
Mary's River, where the real interest begins. The river is 62 miles long, and is com- 
posed of a succession of beautiful straits and broad lakes. It is almost entirely shut 
in by high hills, which rise from the water's edge. In the many beauties and eccen- 
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famous rivers. The channel is narrow, crooked, and shallow, however, and must be 
passed by daylight. This is usually accomplished at dawn, this line being the only 
one which makes it at mid-day. The river is full of islands, and there are many 
popular hunting and fishing resorts along its course. At 6 p. m. we arrive at Sault 
Ste. Marie, a city of 10,000 inhabitants. There is much of interest about the old place. 
It lies on the left bank of the river, just below the famous government ship canal, 
built for the purpose of passing the St. Mary's Rapids. The government works are 
exceedingly interesting. The immense and perfect structure of masonry, the water 
power which runs all the machinery necessary to operate the monster gates of the 
lock, and the dynamos which furnish the electric lighting, are perfect in all their details, 
and well display man's ingenuity. The lock of this canal is 650 feet long by 80 feet 
wide, and has a lift of 18 feet. Considerable tonnage may therefore pass through at 
one time. The rapids are a source of much curiosity and awe, and to "shoot" them 
in an Indian canoe is the acme of delight. Fort Brady, erected in 1823, is an old and 
important U. S. military post. The party spends the night at Sault Ste. Marie, re- 
turning to Mackinac the next morning. 

After another delightful afternoon and evening at Mackinac Island, at 10 p. M., 
July iith, we board one of the Royal Mail steamers of the Great Northern Transit 
Co., for the Tour among the 25,000 islands of beautiful Georgian Bay. 

*MONG THE 25,000 ISLANDS OF THE GEORGIAN BAY. 

"Where the north star shines most clear, 
And our devious course we steer 
'Mong the isles of the Georgian Bay." 

This great arm of Lake Huron, almost rivaling the lake itself in extent, is a wildly 
romantic body of water. Its northern and eastern shores are particularly attractive, 



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Steamer Entering Channel (Georgian Bay). 



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the waters here being thickly studded with islands, while numerous coves, bays, and 
inlets contribute to the tortuous windings of the channels of this wondrous archipelago, 
and to the picturesqueness of the scenery. The islands in the bay are not less than 
25,000 in number, and range in size from the merest dot on the water to the Great 
Manitoulin, many miles in extent. They also present a picturesque variety, as to their 
general appearance. Some are bare and rocky; others are clothed with verdure to the 
very water's edge. Here, one rises abruptly in castellated pinnacles, and anon 
another is densely wooded, with inviting shades, ofifering delightful shelter to 
the camper. 

Historical points are numerous and many an anecdote has been handed down 
from generation to generation. The Gap or Little Detroit is a very narrow passage 




Among the 25,000 Islands of Georgian Bay. 



between jutting rocks rising on either side which may almost be touched as we pass 
through. Here the war-like Iroquois Indians massacred a band of Ojibways, the 
descendants of whom are still to be found around She-bon-on-ing and Wikwemi- 
kong Bay. 

Campment d'Ours, the home of the bears, is an island situated between St. Joseph 
Island and the mainland, and was the Indians' favorite hunting grounds for bruin. 
In passing Devil's Elbow, Pictured Rocks, and through Devil's Gap to Richards 
Landing we get a good view of St. Joseph Island, which was a British garrison during 
one of the Indian wars. It was surprised and captured by the Americans and their 
Indian allies, who burned the fort and carried off the ammunition; afterwards the 
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and Sugar Islands into the American channel of St. Mary River, we find it is very 
crooked and sufficiently dangerous to make it interesting. 

The steamer touches at the principal ports along the north shore and on the large 
islands, and the tourist finds frequent opportvmities of enlivening the trip by a run 
on shore, or a flying visit to some of the many points of interest to be found on the 
journey. The Indian villages are objects of no little curiosity, and their inhabitants 
turn out en masse when the boat comes in, some of the women with their basket and 
bead-work to offer the passengers, while the men and children have freshly-caught 
fish, and berries of various kinds, from which the boat's stores are sometimes re- 
plenished. 

The Tour of Georgian Bay will take about two days and two nights, arriving at 




A Quiet Nook Among the 25,000 Islands. 



Collingwood, Ont., one of Georgian Bay resorts, at night, July 13th. The next morn- 
ing, July 14th, the party leaves Collingwood via Grand Trunk Railway, for an all-rail 
ride to the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence. At Niagara Falls our cars are 
again on the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the line used until Rochester, N. Y., 
is reached, when the New York Central Railroad engine is attached for the remainder 
of the run to Clayton, N. Y., where a steamer conveys the party to the Thousand 
Island Park, in the midst of the Thousand Islands, where the party is to remain for 
three and one-half days, with the beautiful new Columbian Hotel for headciuarters. 

The Thousand Islands, scattered in profusion along the great St. Lawrence 
River from Cape Vincent and Clayton to Alexandria Bay and beyond — the channel 



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being in some places 12 miles in width. Numerical titles are usually exaggerations, 
but this is a notable exception, the islands being in reality more than 1,800 in number, 
varying in size from the small mass of rock to picturesque islands miles in extent, 
and overspread with luxuriant vegetation. Nearly every island, large or small, is the 
pleasant summer home of its fortunate owner, and many beautiful cottages, of quaint 
and elegant design, or the more pretentious and stately castle-like structures of en- 
during stone, resplendent in gay streamers and pennants of every color, add to the 




A Picturesque Terrace (Georgian Bay). 



liveliness of the scene an indescribable attractiveness. The refined taste which has 
transformed these island wilds into pleasure resorts is nowhere more noticeable than 
in the many provisions for comfort and enjoyment which surround these summer 
homes, and inake them pictures of delight and real contentment. This whole region 
is one of incomparable beauty, and just the place one seeks for rest and refreshment 
during the warm days of summer. 

Bathed by the clear blue waters of the St. Lawrence, and fanned by gentle breezes 
laden with the balmy odors of pine, fir, and balsam, the islands are at all times delight- 
fully cool and refreshing. A spirit of rest and freedom from care seems to pervade the 
place, while the fascinating beauty of the scene gives it the charm of a spectacle in 
fairyland or the beautiful visions of a dream. As a resort the Thousand Islands 
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have added so much to the natural attractions of the islands that the transformed 
scene appears more like the creation of a romance. 

During the summer the Thousand Islands teem with life, and the river is every- 




Among the Thousand Islands. 

where dotted with little yachts and pleasure boats, which flit hither and thither among 
the islands, in search of new delights. Pleasure cruising in canoe or boat is always 




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charming, and always romantic; now floating in some sequestered bay, the surface 
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oars in the shade of a wooded island, until the deep whistle of a passing steamer, or the 
shrill screech of a steam launch breaks the spell. 

With the dusk the scene changes. As the last rays of the setting sun gild the 
heights of the islands the glow of lights from one island is soon followed by a bright 
response from another, then still another, each island marked by a distinctive device 
in colored lights, until the spectacle must rival that of old Venice in the carnival season. 

The most thrilling ride of this delightful Tour is still before us, the daylight ride 
down the St. Lawrence to Montreal. 

Leaving the wharf at Thousand Island Park early in the morning, July i8th, break- 
fast that morning being served on board the steamer. 

Scattering islands, many of them quite as wild as when the white man first voy- 




Among the Thousand Islands. 

aged here, are passed all the way 
down to Brockville, where the 
Thousand Island system termi- 
nates in a group called the "Three 
Sisters." 

Brockville is a substantial 
Canadian city of 7,000 people. It is one hundred and twenty-six miles from Montreal 
by the river. One notes the large number of fine private properties along the rugged 
river front, both above and below the town. Immdiately opposite is the American 
town of Mornstown. 

Fourteen miles beyond, the Canadian town of Prescott and the American city of 
Ogdensburg stand z'is-a-z'is upon the banks of the river. Prescott has a population 
of about 3.000, and bears the solid air for which all Canadian towns are famous. 

Ogdensburg, the largest and most affluent place in northern New York, merits 
more than a passing notice. It is the focal point of three lines of railroads, and a 
depot for a vast transhipment of grain and lumber from the West. 

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fications still exist, and immediately below are the first of the series of rapids, the 
Gallopes, and shortly thereafter the Rapide de Plat is met. Neither of these swift 
places are especially exciting, but they serve as a preliminary to the great Long Sauli 
(pronounced long sou), which is next in order. A long reach of smooth water inter- 
venes, however, during which we pass the small American town of Waddington and 
the attractive Canadian city of Morrisburg. Just below this place is the battlefield 
of Chrisler's Farm, where an engagement occurred in 1813, between British and 
American forces, while the latter were marching to the capture of Montreal and 
Quebec. 

Below this point the steamer, well fitted for her daily task of breasting the wild 
surges of the rapids, turns in the swift current, and a mile ahead the passengers see 




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the white, stormy waters of the Long Sault stretching from shore to shore. Now the 
real fun begins. There is a sudden hush to the monotone of the steamer's pulsations. 
We are in the grasp of the current. Extra men are at the wheel, and others are aft 
in charge of a spare tiller. If you are inclined to be nervous now, remember that 
steamers have been going down here ever since 1840, and no passenger vessel has 
ever been wrecked in the rapids. 

The first plunge is over a cascade at "the cellar," and is exhilarating. We are no 
sooner into the vast expanse of broken waters than fresh sensations await us. Look 
at the shore! ]\Iy, how we slide along. Now across our way a vast green billow, 
like the oncoming surge of the ocean tipon soundings after a nor'easter, disputes our 
passage. It is of the beautiful green where the sunlight shows through its wedge-like 
cap that one sees upon the coral beds of Nassau, or at the deep centre of the Horse- 
shoe Fall at Niagara, or in drug-store jars. It does not rise and fall, advance and 



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recede. It simply stands there forever, a vast wall of water through which we cleave 
our way with a fierce, brief struggle, only to meet a second, a third, a fourth like wave 
beyond. Guide books have falsely told a generation that the Long Sault is nine 
miles in length. It is supposable that the first guide-book writer was told this by a 
reckless deckhand, and recording it, it has been taken as gospel by every subsequent 
cribbing guide-book writer who has touched upon the subject. 

The veritable rapids are scarce a mile and a half in length, but there is a con- 
tinuance of reasonably swift water for several miles further. The actual fight between 
the steamer and the angry billows is over in less than three minutes. 

As the good steamer emerges upon the broad Lake St. Francis, dinner is an- 
nounced, and the reader may safely forego his outlook for a time, as the transit of 
the lake will occupy an hour and a half at least, as it is 25 miles long. 




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Over upon the left shore of the lake stands the village of Lancaster, and when 
the river tires of its breathing spell, while loitering in the guise of a lake, and resolves 
to be a river once more, it is dashed ofif impetuously just after leaving the village of 
Coteau du Lac, which you have just seen peeping above the trees, and carries us head- 
long down the "Coteau Rapids," which are about two miles long, then the "Cedars," 
three miles, and the "Cascades," of which the Split Rock Rapid is the most formidable 
and dangerous looking. At the Coteau we pass under the great international bridge 
recently completed. There is enough, indeed, within the score of miles covering this 
part of the day's experience to afiford excitement and interest for a year of ordinary 
travel. The village at the foot of the Cascades is Beauharnois, and now a second lake 
is met, as if the river dreaded the final plunge down the famous Lachine. 

"There's Mount Royal," says a passenger, as we sit upon the forward deck. 

We see in the blue distance its bold outline traced against the mellow northern 

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sky, the profile of the promontory, and from its base, a thin, wide cloud of smoke 
drifting away from the city of Montreal. Smoke escaping from a thousand chimneys, 
the funnels of great steamships, and all the fuel-consuming devices of a great industrial 
centre. 

Onward forges our speedy craft, and ere long the troubled waters of Lachine 
are seen far ahead, a snowy breastwork across our path. The lake is again a river. 
We are abreast the village of Lachine, where the canal from Montreal debouches 
into the St. Lawrence. The muddy Ottawa pours its tide into the pure blue 
waters in which we have voyaged since morning, as the Missouri pollutes the 
Mississippi. 

A little while later and we are in the vortex. The current grows swifter and 
swifter. All the bosom of the river is covered with reefs and rocks. All the mightv 




One of the Thousand Island Channels. 



outpouring of the stream is pent up in a single channel. The boat heads this way and 
that, then the bottom of the river seems to fall out. Down we plunge! and onward, 
straight toward a rocky islet! Which side? Just as destruction seems imminent, the 
vessel sweeps round to the right and shoots like an arrow between two sunken ledges. 
We are through, and maj' look back up the watery hill we have descended, and admire 
the courage of the men who first navigated this wonderful channel. 

The once marvelous Victoria Bridge comes into view. In a few moments we 
steam beneath it and swing around the dangerous shoals that bar the terminus of 
deep water navigation, and heading up stream are speedily at the lock, within which 
the steamer rises to the upper level, and we are then speedily transferred to the Bal- 
moral Castle Hotel, Montreal, one of the very best in the city, which is to be the head- 
quarters of the party until Thursday morning, July 20th. The entire day (July igth) 
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Montreal is the metropolis of British North. America, and a city of great interest 
to the tourist both in winter and summer. Its population is made up of French 
and English people, the former predominating. There are many attractions, and the 
view to be had from the summit of Mount Royal is one of the greatest. Among points 
of interest are the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the English Cathedral, the new Roman 
Catholic Cathedral, Bonsecours Market, the Court House, Custom House, Hotel 





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Dieu Hospital, and various 
institutions and public 
buildings. There are many 
beautiful drives around the 
city, the roads resembling 
those to be found in 
Europe. 

Thursday morning, 
July 20th, the party leaves 
Montreal by rail via New 
York Central Railroad for 
the return trip, via the Adi- 
rondack Mountains. After 
a short run the train goes humming through the mountains. 

The Adirondack Mountains occupy an area of 1,400 square miles in the north 
eastern part of New York State, lying in the counties of Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, 
St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, Fulton, Oneida, Saratoga, Washington, Essex, and 
Warren. 

The x\dirondack Plateau or mountain region proper has a general elevation 
of about 2,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is traversed by five distinct mountain 
ranges with well definded intervening valleys. Over 1,300 lakes and mountain ponds 
are scattered throughout its area, while from its central watershed twenty rivers diverge 
in every direction. 

This famous and interesting territory is separated into two great sections known 
as the mountain region and the lake region. The mountain belt occupies the eastern 
and southern part of the plateau, while the lake region stretches itself over the western 
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THE MOUNTAIN 
REGION. 

This mountain 
belt, whose greatest 
width is about 40 miles, 
extends from Lake 
Champlain in a south- 
westerly direction. 
Five separate mountain 
chains, or ranges, run 
parallel with each other 
through the entire belt, 
at a distance of seven 
or eight miles apart. 
The first of these ranges 
encountered on the east 
is the Luzerne range, 
which begins at Ticon- 
deroga on Lake Cham- 
plain, and running 
southward encircles 
Lake George, crosses 
the Hudson at Glens 
Falls and disappears in 
the hills near Saratoga. 
The next range to the 
westward is that of the 
Kayaderosseras, which 
ixtends from Crown 
Point, through Warren 
County, ending in the 
lowlands of Saratoga. 
The third chain is 
known as the Schroon 
range, and extends 
from Westport through 
Essex and Warren 
Counties, and ends in 
the valley of the Mo- 
hawk. Next, and still 
to the westward, is the 
Boquet range, which 
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Champlain, and crossing the centre of Essex County, extends through the southwest- 
ern part of Hamilton County, along the border of the east Canada Creek. The fifth 
range starts at Port Kent, on Lake Champlain, runs straight through Essex, Her- 
kimer, and Hamilton Counties to the Mohawk River, where it terminates in the rocky 
scenery at Little Falls. This chain is more than loo miles in length, and is the back- 
bone of the Adirondack Mountains, its ridge dividing the watershed of the St. Law- 
rence from that of the Hudson and Champlain. 

THE LAKE REGION, 

Or second grand division referred to, stretches westward from the base of the main 
Adirondack range to the borders of the forest, a distance of 50 miles. It includes 
the tract lying north and west of a line drawn from the Fulton chain, through the 
Raquette and Long Lakes to the Saranacs. This network of lakes and ponds is a 
wonderful and attractive feature of the great wilderness, adding a rare diversity to 
the scenery. They are so closly connected that trips of 100 miles can be made in 
guide boats, the water journey being broken only by short "carries" seldom exceeding 
two miles in length. These water-routes, combined with mountain trips and Adiron- 
dack stage rides, make this region a perpetual delight to the summer tourist. No- 
where else in the world is there such a combination of wild, grand scenery, and de- 
lightful, easy travel, lying at the very threshold of civilization. 
Our only stop in the Adirondacks will be at Trenton Falls. 

TRENTON FALLS. 

In scenery Trenton Falls is the rarest combination of the beautiful and grand. It 
possesses the beauty and grace one misses at Niagara, and the grandeur and strength 
so lacking at Watkins and Havana. 

Rev. David Spencer, of Scranton, Pa., after viewing the falls for the first time in 
the summer of 1887, said: "Many persons pass through, and perhaps some dwell in 
Utica, who have never seen the Trenton Falls. For the information of such, especially 
the following description is written of a recent trip through this succession of beautiful 
surprises: Leaving Moore's Hotel, with cane in hand, we passed through the woods 
a hundred yards, and reached the top of what is known as the lower stairway. De- 
scending this at easy stages, we passed down 127 steps into the great flume. On either 
side, as if laid by mason's hand, the walls of Trenton limestone towered above 150 feet 
or more. Through this flume the Kanata River (the Indians called it Kauyahoora, 
meaning leaping water) passes over this rocky bed, while we, to view the beauties 
of its falls, pass up along its water over a pavement of flagstone, laid by nature herself, 
solid, even, and deep. We pause ever and anon to admire the flowers, ferns, and 
mosses which adorn the wall of this old gray glen. A walk of a few steps brings us 
to the narrows, where the waters are crowded into a limited channel and rush along 
with great force. You hear the roar of falls near by, but cannot see them, for, as you 
look up the gorge, the bold face of a solid rock, forty feet high, extending as far as 



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you can see, entirely across the chasm, greets your gaze. You turn a point and off at 
one side you come upon the first, or Sherman Fall, named after Rev. John Sherman, 




Trenton Falls. 



who made this spot a public resort. This fall has made for itself a semi-circular 
alcove, into which it leaps to a depth of forty feet. Climbing the stair-like steps cut 



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out of the solid rock, aided by a chain fastened by strong staples, you pass around 
the circular gorge the fall has worn out under the shelving wall, and stand by the 
precipice over which the fall plunges with deafening roar. We reach a point where 
we can look over the Sherman, down through the chasm to the narrows several 
hundred yards. It is an impressive scene; but turning our back upon this great hall- 
way of the waters, we round the point, and instantaneously we are charmed with the 
sight of the High Falls. Awe-inspired and surprised we stand and take in the marvelous 
view. It is a picture in water-colors, framed in rock, fringed with greenness, spangled 
with wild flowers, and canopied by the blue vault of heaven. This fall is triple and 
has a leap of seventy feet. Passing up to it you seem to have entered a three-storj- 
palace. The leap to the ground floor is over a perpendicular height. Climbing to 
the second floor you see the water passing down over a terraced-like slope in a foam 
of whiteness like alabaster. Thence up to the third floor, where the great plunge is 
made. Here the water, at one part of the falls, passes in solid volume, having the 
color of amber, which in the sunlight is singularly beautiful, looking like a cascade 
of melted topaz, while at other places the water passes as a thin, silvery sheet, like a 
bridal veil of beauty. As you sit under the shadow of the great overhanging walls 
and look upon the cataract, the sunlight falls with delicious efifect upon the waters. 
You listen entranced to the diapason of this great organ in nature's cathedral glen, 
while you get an imposing idea of power, beauty, and harmony, and even of fury. 
Sitting in silence we gazed upon these falls, and down into the chasm filled with spray, 
arched by a most magnificent rainbow, and we allowed the glory of the whole scene 
to infiltrate our minds, until we thought of that new 'song,' which is as the voice of 
many waters, 'yet sweet as harpers harping with their harps.' Passing above we 
come to the Milldam Fall. A few rods beyond we come to the Alhambra Cascade, a 
marvel of uniqueness and beauty. We enter its domain through a walled gateway 
of rock, rounded as if by an artist's skill. Here the waters leap and foam and play, 
much to the pleasure of the observer. Just beyond this is a peculiar column-like rock 
crowned with capital, and bearing above it an immense wall of stone, into whose clef? 
trees have rooted themselves, and tower-like spire towards the sky. Walking on, we 
pass through the Rocky Heart, and a real gem to look upon, and thence on until we 
climb the steps of the upper stairway to the clifif. A mile beyond this, at Prospect, 
is another fall, entirely different from any we have passed. Over the face of a solid 
wall of rock, fully 100 feet in width, passes the water, behind whose veil-like thinness 
the layers of Trenton limestone are distinctly seen. 

"Retracing our steps, we take the upper path through the native forest which 
skirts the long chasm, back to the hotel for rest and recuperation, as well as to think 
over the beauties of this one of nature's masterpieces in the magnificent work with 
which her galleries are adorned. Lovers of the beautiful and picturesque in nature 
should not pass unvisited these lovely Falls."' 

After the visit at Trenton Falls the New York Central train is again taken 
for a short run to Geneva, there to connect with the Lehigh Valley train for Philadel- 
phia, arriving at the Reading Terminal Station at 7.48 a. m., July 21st. 



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We are able to quote the following remarkably low rates for this delightful Tour: 

Trip A. — Holder of "A" tickets is entitled to one Double Berth in 
Standard Pullman Palace Sleeper between Philadelphia 
and Niagara Falls going, and between Geneva, N. Y., 
and Philadelphia, returning; one berth in Outside State- 
room on Lake and Georgian Bay steamers, and all neces- 
sary expenses of the Tour as outlined on the preceding 
pages, $81.50 

Trip B. — Holder of "B" tickets is entitled to one Half Berth in 
Standard Pullman Palace Sleeper between Philadelphia 
and Niagara Falls going, and between Geneva, N. Y., 
and Philadelphia returning; one berth in Inside State- 
room on Lake and Georgian Bay steamers, and all neces- 
sary expenses as outlined on the preceding pages, $79-25 

The rates named include railroad tickets from Philadelphia to Detroit, steamship 
tickets from Detroit to Mackinac Island, and from Mackinac Island through Georgian 
Bay to Collingwood; R. R. ticket from Collingwood to the Thousand Islands; 
steamer ticket from the Thousand Islands to Montreal; R. R. ticket from Montreal 
through the Adirondacks to Philadelphia. The rates named also include Pullman 
accommodations and state-rooms on steamers as indicated, all meals en route, all hotel 
bills, the side Trip to the "Soo" Locks — in short, every necessary expense for the entire 
Tour. 

It will be observed, from careful reading of this Itinerary, that only the best Hotels 
have been engaged, insuring first-class accommodations throughout the entire Tour. 

Remember that the number for this Tour is positively limited to 100* people. 
We have state-room accommodations for only 100, so that the number that can be 
registered is limited necessarily. "First come, first served," of course. 

Advance Payment. — When registering for the Tour an advance payment of 
five dollars ($5.00) is required, on account, the balance, according to trip selected, 
to be paid on or before June 28th, when all tickets and "Little Red Book" of coupons, 
covering entire Tour, will be ready for delivery. 

An official railroad and steamer schedule for the entire Tour will be mailed, in 
due time, to every one registering. 

Address (or call), 




639-643 N. Broad St., Phila., Pa. 



ANOTHER CALIFORNIA ^97 ECHO. 



"It gives me much pleasure to state, for the benefit of my friends and others who 
are contemplating a trip to Los Angeles, California, to attend the National Educa- 
tional Association's Convention in that city during next July, that Mr. W. A. Gil- 
lespie, of 639 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, with great success, personally con- 
ducted the Mammoth "97 San Francisco' Christian Endeavor Excursion (which I 
enjoyed very much), and will, this summer, run a similar excursion from Philadel- 
phia and intermediate points to the Educational Convention. Every proposition or 
inducement he may offer in his circulars he will carry out to the letter. 

"Railroad companies will sell you a ticket of transportation at certain scheduled 
prices and agree to carry you to your destination safely and as quickly as possible. 
Mr. Gillespie, however, did much better by us than that. He did not only carry us 
safely and speedily at very much reduced railroad fares, but he also had, at all times, 
our individual interests at heart; he made it his business to give us the best of every- 
thing that could be had, and have us see all there was to be seen. His thorough ac- 
quaintance with every inch of interesting territory along the route enabled him to so 
plan the movements of his trains that we missed nothing that was good or that 
was worth seeing. At certain points of special interest we would stop over just long 
enough to relieve traveling fatigue, and enjoy small side trips, such as a run up the 
charming, silvery Clear Creek Caiion in Colorado, an ascent to the top of old Pike's 
Peak, as well as baths in the refreshing water of Great Salt Lake, and in the pools of 
the Hot Springs, at Glenwood, Colorado — treats which no one can afford to miss on 
his first trip to the Pacific Coast. Nothing to him was too much trouble to make 
his party comfortable and contented. He always gladly listened to any complaints 
about train hands or sleeping-car accommodations, and speedily adjusted the diffi- 
culty if it lay in his power to do so. Too much credit cannot be given Mr. Gilles- 
pie for the satisfactory and successful management of his excursions." 

Respectfully, 

H. S. BissEY, M. D. 

1630 North Sixteenth Street, Philadelphia, 
April i8th, 1899. 



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TOUR No. 3. 



The White Mountains and the Coast of Maine, 



ONE of the most delightful "Short Trips" and at the same time one that is 
usually expensive (this one is an exception, however) is that tour which makes 
the White Mountains the centre of attraction, visiting incidentally Boston, 
Mass., and Old Orchard Beach. Maine. 

This is the Trip selected for our Tour No. 3, for the summer of '99. 

The party (the number being limited to 50 persons) will leave the Reading Ter- 
minal, Twelfth and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Monday, August 14th, at 1.30 p. m., 
for New York City, there boarding one of the magnificent Fall River Line steamers, 
leaving the wharf at 5.30 p. m., for the delightful ride across Long Island Sound. At 
9 A. M., August 15th, after a short railway journey from Fall River, Mass., the party 
arrives in Boston, where the American House will be our headquarters. The party 
will remain in Boston until the morning of the 17th, for two full days can be most 
delightfully spent in this wonderful city. The many places of historic interest in 
Boston and vicinity are too well known to make detailed mention at all necessary. 

On the morning of Thursday, August 17th, the party will leave Boston, en route 
to the White Mountains, a stop for dinner being made at Plymouth, N. H., the Gate- 
way to the White Mountains. The Pemigewasset House will serve the dinner. 

Plymouth, N. H., may be said to lay fairly within the gateway of the White 
Mountains region on the west. Situated near the junction of the Pemigewasset and 
Baker's Rivers, it is indeed a beautiful New England village, in the midst of most at- 
tractive scenery; nor is it without an interesting history of its own. In one of its 
ancient buildings the voice of the young lawyer, Daniel Webster, was heard making 
his first plea before a jury. Its territory has witnessed many fierce conflicts between 
its white settlers and the native Indians, for Indian villages were once more numerous 
about here than are white residents at the present day. In the great hotel here, 
Nathaniel Hawthorne met his death in 1864. Though not large in population the 
place is a considerable trade centre, and has some manufacturers that have become 
celebrated in every mart in the Northern United States. 

The mountain scenery about Plymouth is notably attractive. In the near neigh- 
borhood is Mount Monadnock, and lofty peaks loom skyward all the way round from 
this elevation to Mount Moosilauke. The opening into the Pemigewasset Valley is 
a doorway of the town, so to speak; while beyond is Mount Prospect, from which the 
Franconia and White Mountains, Osceola and White Face, the Squam Range, some 

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Sandwich peaks, with the waters of Squani Lake and Winnipesaukee outspread in the 
intervals, form a succession of grandest features in the landscapes. 

After several hours of delightful mountain travel we arrive at "Fabyan's." 

So far as "the hearing of the ear" is concerned, "Fabyan's" is one of the best 
known of all White Mountains locaHties to the general public. The origin of the 
present establishment to be found there is as follows: 

Previous to the year 1837 a hotel had stood upon, or near, the site of the present 
Fabyan House. In that year came to the mountains Mr. Fabyan — who died some time 
in the '70's — previously a market-keeper in Portland, and he became possessed of the 
hotel, with about 250 acres of the original Crawford lands, in the midst of which it 
stood. This hotel was burned in 1853. For a dozen or more years thereafter the site 
remained empty, and then the present Fabyan House was built. 

The site of the Fabyan House is upon the crest of what was known a half century 
since as the "Giant's Grave." This was an eminence 300 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 
50 feet high, smoothly rounded, and in shape like a well-kept grave-mound. The 
scientific theory is that this mound was formed by the action of inland or ocean waters, 
which gradually detached and washed away the loose earth from about the more rocky, 
firm locality, and left the "grave" smooth and rounded by their action of centuries. 
Within the memory of the older denizens of the mountains, the Giant's Grave and the 
view from its top presented a far different appearance from any now obtaining. Then 
the neighboring hills and lands were covered by a dense and heavy tree growth. 

About 20 feet of the Giant's Grave were shaved off in preparing for the foundations 
of the present hotel. The house itself is of excellent interior, roomy, well-ventilated, 
and perfectly drained. The Fabyan farm occupies the intervale, and on all sides are 
the features of modern hotel establishment which mark the caravansary of the present 
day. Directly in front is the union depot of the Concord & Montreal and Maine 
Central Railroads — in fact, this is the railroad centre of the mountains. The trains 
running to the base of Mount Washington find here their starting point, and these 
connect directly with the trains of the Mount Washington Railway. On every side 
are drives and walks, the ample stables of the Fabyan affording always means for 
transportation to any part not covered by the railway lines. 

"Fabyan's" is always an animated locality. As it is the centre of travel for the 
mountains, so it is the centre of visitation also; and few travelers visit the region, or 
sojourn within it, who are not at some time guests at Fabyan's. All roads in the 
mountains lead thither, and the great central office hall — 60 feet square — of the hotel is 
a grand rendezvous for the summer population. 

The party will arrive at Fabyan's in the afternoon of August 17th (Thursday), 
remaining until the next afternoon, when Mount Washington is to be scaled. 

MOUNT WASHINGTON RAILWAY. 

This remarkable triumph of engineering skill, extending from the base to the 
summit of Mount Washington, now renders a trip to the summit accessible to every- 
body, and the fatigues attendant upon mountain climbing are here a thing of the past. 



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The novel road is constructed with an extra or centre toothed rail, into which the 
cog wheel of the engine "meshes," and the train is thus enabled to climb the grade, 
as no ordinary engine could possibly do. The trip occupies about an hour and a half, 
and it is needless to say that the views afforded from the train are surpassingly grand. 
Each train consists of one engine and a single car, the engine being always below the 
car, to push in the upward journey and to hold it back in the descent. The safety 
appliances on the train are such that an accident is well-nigh impossible, and not a 
passenger has ever been injured in all the years the road has been in operation. 

The traveler will note the changes in vegetation as the altitude increases, the 
heavy forests giving way to stunted shrubs, and these in turn to mosses and lichens, 
while at the summit the bare aijd desolate rock gives an idea of arctic climate, which 
indeed docs prevail the larger part of the year. 

The Summit House furnishes shelter to the visitor, whether his stay be for a few 
hours only, or for days or weeks. The view from the summit is indescribable. Its 
immensity is at first overwhelming. The line of vision bounds a circle nearly a thou- 
sand miles in circumference; and within that circle are lakes, rivers, mountains, valleys, 
dark forests, smiling villages, and in fact an almost endless variety of scenery, ever 
changing as the gaze is directed to the different points of the compass. In a clear day 
the distant glimmer of the Atlantic may be seen, ofif Portland harbor, to the southeast. 
In the opposite direction, the horizon is broken by the Green Mountains of Vermont, 
with a glimpse of the remote Adirondacks in New York. All around are lakes, moun- 
tains, rivers, and villages. The view is greeted with a new picture at every turn, and 
as the eye learns to distinguish distances it gradually dawns upon you that you stand 
over a mile and a third above the level of the sea, at the highest altitude attainable 
in New England without the aid of a balloon. 

Thursday night will be spent on the summit at the "Summit House," so that the 
coveted vision of sunrise on Mount Washington may be obtained. 

The following description of a sunrise on Mount Washington is from the pen of 
the author of "The Switzerland of America:" 

"The grand, culminating view from this lofty point of observation is to be had at 
the rising of the sun. ... At early dawn the inmates of the house are roused, and such 
as choose to do so arise and dress, and take their position on the platform east of the 
building, to watch for the first appearance of the 'golden orb of day.' Beneath you the 
valleys are still in slumber, and a deep gloom is spread over all, in sharp contrast with 
the light of dawn wliich already illumines the mountain peaks around you. Banks of 
mist here and there indicate the location of bodies of water, and possibly overhanging 
clouds may partially hide some of the mountain summits from view. All eyes are 
turned expectantly toward the east, which is beginning to show a faint rosy tinge, 
deepening every moment till it reaches a crimson or perhaps a golden hue, a fitting 
couch from which the brilliant day-king is about to spring forth upon his glorious 
reign. Suddenly one point in the eastern horizon grows more intensely bright than all 
the rest, and the disc of the sun is then discernible, quickly increasing in proportions 
until the broad face of the great luminary so dazzles the eye as to compel a withdrawal 



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of the gaze. Looking then into the valleys below, the effect is transcendently beautiful. 
While the spectator is bathed in the full golden sunshine, the sombre shadows are just 
beginning to flit away, presenting in the strongest possible manner the contrasts of 
light and shade; and not until some minutes have elapsed does the new-born day 
reach down into the deepest valleys to drive forth the lingering remnants of night." 

Late in the forenoon, Friday, August i8th, the party return to "Fabyan's" for 
dinner, and in the afternoon leaves "Fabyan's" again for the Crawford House, at the 




Crawford Notch, White Mountainr. 

famous Crawford Notch, where we are to remain for two and one-half days, spending 
Sunday, August 20th, at this point. 

The Crawford House is one of the very finest in all New England, and situated 
as it is in the very choicest of the White Mountains region, one can readily imagine 
how delightful a resort it must be. 

Monday morning, August 21st, the party will leave Crawfords for the ride to 
Portland and Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Portland is reached early in the afternoon, 
and then it is but a short run to Old Orchard Beach, where the party will remain for 



88 GILLESPIE'S POPULAR TOURS. 

three and one-half days, with the superb Old Orchard House for hotel headquarters. 
The Old Orchard House is by far the finest hotel on the beach. The reader has doubt- 
'less noted, ere this, that otily the best of everything has been provided for the Tour. 

The coast of Maine is abundantly rich in all that goes to make a complete summer 
resort. Speaking of Casco Bay, of which the harbor of the City of Portland forms a 
part, the following extract from the pen of Edward H. Elwell, in his admirably written 
work entitled Portland and Vicinity, will be found truthful and concise, and conveys 
as well as words can, some conception of these beautiful resorts by the sea: 

"Here is a little bay, extending from Cape Elizabeth to Cape Small Point, a dis- 




Old Orchard House, Old Orchard, Maine. 

tance of about i8 miles, with a depth of about 12 miles, more thickly studded with 
islands than any water of like extent on the coast of the United States, there being 
something over 300 islands in Casco Bay. Unlike the low sandy islands of the 
Massachusetts coast, these are of the most picturesque forms, while bold headlands 
and peninsulas jut far out into the waters. There is the greatest possible variety in 
the form and grouping of these islands. Some lie in clusters, some are coupled to- 
gether by connecting sandbars, bare at low water, while others are solitary and alonel 
Nearly all of them are indented with beautiful coves, and crowned with a mingled 
growth of maple, oak, beech, pine, and fir, extending often to the water's edge, and 
reflected in many a deep inlet and winding channel. In the thick covert of the firs 



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and spruces are many green, sunny spots, as sheltered and remote as if far inland, 
while beneath the wide-spreading oaks and beeches are pleasant walks and open glades. 

"For the most part they rise like mounds of verdure from the sea, forest-crowned, 
and from their summits one may behold on the one hand the waves of the Atlantic, 
breaking almost at his feet, and on the other, the placid waters of the bay, spangled 
by multitudinous gems of emerald, while in the dim distance he discerns, on the 
horizon, the sublime peaks of the White Mountains. It is impossible to conceive of 
any combination of scenery more charming, more romantic, more captivating to the 
eye, or more suggestive to the imagination." 

Extending east from the Saco River, along the shores of Saco Bay, is Old 
Orchard Beach, the longest and widest solid sand beach on the Atlantic Coast. It is 
seven miles long and thirty rods wide, making a natural driving course and prom- 
enade, which, in summer, is thronged with vehicles and pedestrians. As the beach 
is hard and smooth, and the ocean free from treacherous under-currents, surf bathing 
here is free from danger — even children can bathe in safety. 

From the earliest history of the country. Old Orchard has been favorably known 
as a health resort; and since 1840, when it was opened to the public by the establish- 
ment of the Old Orchard House, it has annually increased in public popularity, and 
records among its patrons the most distinguished names on this continent. 

The present spacious Old Orchard House was erected in 1876. It has ample 
accommodations for 500 guests, and is fitted with all modern inventions for their 
convenience and comfort. Electric bells and speaking tubes for all rooms, passenger 
elevator, telegraph office, etc. The Staples family has been identified with the hotel 
interests of Old Orchard for more than half a century. 

This house stands upon an eminence about fifty rods from the ocean, to which 
leads a broad plank promenade. It overlooks the bay, bordered by beach and studded 
by green islands, and the surrounding country of forest, fields, and flourishing farms. 
From the eastern piazza the view is especially grand and impressive. From the wave- 
beaten beach the blue ocean broadens out till, in the dissolving distance, it mellows 
into sky. Before the vision are passing the swift-winged craft of pleasure, the steam- 
propelled palaces of travel, and white-robed ships of commerce bearing, from country 
to country, an exchange of thoughts and commodities, continually traveling upon this 
broad, swelhng highway of nations. 

The New Steel Pier at Old Orchard Beach is one of the finest in the world and 
the longest in this country. It is 1,770 feet in length, and will furnish all the con- 
veniences for boating and fishing to make this one of the very best on the coast for 
water sports. It will be open at all times for promenading at a moderate admis- 
sion fee, and music will be furnished through the busy parts of the day and evening. 
At low tide Old Orchard Beach is a solid sand surface for many miles, and 
thousands here assemble to enjoy the salubrious air and gayety of the scene. Pensive 
pedestrians, joyous children, poetic lovers, meditative scientists, health-seeking in- 
valids, and family-filled equipages throng this wonderful, wave-washed highway, and 
the surf is alive with jubilant bathers, for whose accommodation, in close proximity 
to the water, the Old Orchard Bathing Pavilion has been erected. 



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When standing upon the roof of the Old Orchard House, the spires of Portland 
twelve miles away, are distinctly seen against the eastern sky. In the same direction 
are seen Cape Elizabeth and Prout's Neck boldly pushing out of their rock-bound 
shores against the dashing ocean. Standing above the distant blue hills in the west, 
like a gray old sentinel, is seen Mount Washington; and on the south the dark pines 
of Wood Island seem to arise from the waters, and its light-house, from sunset till 
sunrise, flashes out its cheering rays to guide the wave-tossed mariner on his pathless 
voyage. 

The property of the Old Orchard House, and a short distance from it, is a dense 




Old^Orchard House, from the West, Showing New Steel Pier. 

forest of evergreen and deciduous trees, standing in natural grandeur, with strong 
arms interlocked as if defying the vandal axe which laid low their early contempo- 
raries. In this unmarred forest are found many of the native wild flowers of Maine. 
Here, like a cluster of corals in a setting of emerald, grows the bright bunchberry, 
and the glossy-petaled partridge vine and the sweet, tiny twin flower entwine the moss- 
covered knolls. The modest violet, the delicate star flower, and the fragrant checker- 
berry flourish here, and from the abundance of lichens this primeval retreat has been 
appropriately called Fern Park. 



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ATTRACTIONS AT OLD ORCHARD. 

Old Orchard affords unparalleled facilities for inexpensive excursions. Besides 
the pleasure of boating, there is that of inland travel by railway and river, as well as 
carriage drives through the country. Along the beach runs the Old Orchard Beach 
Railroad, connecting the Boston & Maine Railroad at Old Orchard Station with the 
Saco River steamer for Biddeford Pool (two miles down the bay), or the cities of 
Biddeford and Saco, four miles up the river. There is also an electric railway con- 
necting Biddeford, Saco, and Old Orchard. They are also connected by the Boston 




Bathing in front of Old Orchard House Pavilion, a-. : ccn from the Ocean. 

& Maine Railroad. Thus there are opportunities for hourly excursions to any of these 
places. A charming trip, at trifling cost, is along the beach by the Beach Railroad, 
up the picturesque Saco by steamer to the city, thence through a fine farm and wood- 
land country by the electric railroad back to Old Orchard, consuming but a few hours' 
time. 

The carriage drives in the vicinity of Old Orchard are especially pleasing. Some 
are through dark forests with overhanging branches, others through a region of fair 
fields and flourishing farms. Along the highways grow the fragrant wild rose and 
sweet-brier, the bayberry and laurel. As summer declines, the golden rod and purple 



92 GILLESPIE'S POPULAR TOURS. 

asters appear, waving their brilliant plumes, prophetic of approaching autumn. One 
of these charming drives lead to the Cascade, a fine water-fall with a descent of more 
than fifty feet, surrounded by a scenery of a wild and striking character. 

The three and one-half days spent at Old Orchard Beach will unquestionably be 
counted among the most delightful of the Tour. But all good things have an end, 
and the time for leaving Old Orchard, Friday morning, August 25th, comes all too 
soon. 

Boarding the Boston & Maine train again we are of¥ for Boston, arriving early 
in the afternoon; a few hours later the party leaves Boston for Fall River, Mass., to 
connect with our Fall River Line steamer for the return across Long Island Sound 
to New York, arriving in New York City early in the morning, Saturday, August 26th. 

Doubtless all will desire to spend the day in New York City, so an afternoon train 
will be decided upon for the final run to Philadelphia, arriving at the Reading Ter- 
minal at an early hour Saturday evening, August 26th. 

The official route for the party will be: Philadelphia & Reading R. R. to New 
York; Fall River Line to Boston; Boston & Maine R. R. through the White Moun- 
tains to Old Orchard Beach, and from Old Orchard to Boston; Fall River Line back 
to New York, and Philadelphia & Reading to Philadelphia. 

It will be observed upon a careful reading of this Itinerary that only the best 
accommodations throughout have been provided. Regular rates at all the hotels 
selected are high, for they are the best to be had, so that ordinarily the Tour just out- 
lined as the "White Mountain Tour" is very expensive. Notwithstanding all this, I 
am able to offer an exceptionally low figure for this Tour for a party of 50 people only. 
The number is positively limited to 50 persons. 

Rate. — For the entire White Mountain Tour, as outlined, cover- 
ing every necessary expense, except two meals on Fall 
River Line steamers (a la carte), from Philadelphia, 
August 14th, back to Philadelphia, August 26th, $60.00 

Rate named covers all railroad and steamer tickets, state-rooms on steamers, all 
hotel bills, all meals en route (with the exception of one each way on Fall River Line 
steamer, where meals are served a la carte), the ascent of Mount Washington — in 
short, every necessary expense for the entire Tour. 

An Advance Payment of five dollars ($5.00) is required when registering, the 
balance ($55.00) to be paid on or before August 9th, 1899, when all tickets and "Little 
Red Book" of coupons," covering entire Tour, will be ready for delivery. 

I will personally conduct the party. 

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